Cezanne Still Life

Today we learned about the Post-Impressionist artist,

Paul Cezanne.
Cezanne was a French Artist. He worked on many still life paintings and used shape to create his forms. We used construction paper and drew shapes to also create forms in order to design our still life collage.
We built our fruit from basic shapes; we then learned how to create shading on each piece of fruit using a blending technique with chalk pastels.
Here are pictures of our pieces in progress.  Students will be adding the finishing touches next week.

Mondrian Boxes

Today we learned about the Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian.

Mondrian loved color and was inspired by the Impressionist painters.
He created bold paintings that incorporated the primary colors, as well as, horizontal and vertical lines.

We learned how to create an asymmetrical design that incorporates the principle of balance.
His work was often an inspiration to product design.
We created boxes (a useable work of art) in the style of Mondrian.