Our theme for this term is ART ALIVE. As part of our learning, Team 5 have had immersion rotations. The rotations are for us to learn about different artists and their style of painting. Our first class we went to was Room 22. We studied and analysed Vincent Van Gogh’s style of art. His technique is using little brush strokes in his paintings. That is called ‘expressionism’. Our class carefully sketched a sunflower and painted it the same way as Van Gogh did. It was pretty difficult because the more I did little strokes it didn’t look anything near like his art. The reason was because I had to keep adding more paint and wait for it to dry before adding a new layer of paint.
Next we were off to Mr Barks’ class (Room 18). We were learning about Picasso. His style of art was looking at things in a different perspective (Cubism)). For example, if you drew a person looking at the front view, he would then move to the side to see a different perspective of the object he was drawing. We drew a face looking at the front and another looking at the other side. We added the little details e.g. the nose, the eyes. It’s amazing because his style is the most unusual because he thought to himself “I don’t like doing the same as the other paintings”. So he decided to change his perspective in order for him to be satisfied with his artwork.
For our next session, we went to Room 19. There we learnt and studied about Claude Monet. His style of art is called ‘Impressionism’. Impressionism painting takes more time than doing a normal painting. That is because you have to do little brush strokes instead of long strokes. A few quick facts about Claude Monet is that he was born in France in 1840 and died on the 5th of December 1926.
During our lesson, we got to choose what we wanted to paint. I decided to paint the NZ flag in the style of Monet. It took me a long time (I’ve already explained why) to paint it. I started off with painting a red cross, then colouring the background and finally after waiting for it to dry, I added the white to the cross and the stars. “That looks awesome!” I said in disbelief. Who would’ve ever thought that I could paint a great piece of art! I had a fantastic time in Room 19!
Well I am looking forward to what more our teachers have instored for us
Kia Ora Joshua....
ReplyDeleteSounds Like you really had an awesome team immerson for Art Alive! I think that in room 22 learning about Vincent Van Gough was Awesome. Then Off to room 18 to study about famous Artist Picaso. His paintings were really creepy. Keep up the good work!
From Kayde