CURRENT QUESTION

What did the Kuba people use their masks for?
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Henri Matisse and Fauvism

The Red Fish by Henri Matisse

The art movement Fauvism came into being during the early 1900's.  The Fauves used bright, bold, unusual colors.  Their artwork was so poorly received by the public that they named the artists "Fauves" which is French for "wild Beast."  They were implying that the artwork looked like it had been painted by an animal!

Today Fauvism art by Henri Matisse and others sells for millions of dollars.
Grade 3 students recreated Henri Matisse's The Red Fish using acrylic paint and oil pastels.  They did a great job!

Madame Matisse by Henri Matisse

CUBISTIC STILL-LIFE

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 Grade 3 Art Students are learning to identify artwork as landscape, portrait, or still-life.  They created a Cubistic still-life in the manner of Pablo Picasso using mixed media.  Materials used were Prismacolor watercolor pencils, cut paper, and markers.

Cubism was founded by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1908, the style is characterized by geometric and cube like shapes, often showing several views of the subject.

AFRICAN KUBA MASKS

 

GRADE 3 ART STUDENTS    learned about the custom of mask making by the Kubas of Africa.  They created masks similar to those of the Kuba while learning about the art techniques, printing and the use of modeling material.  The final project is a mixed media of paint, clay, paper, and markers.

SECOND PROJECT

Grade 3 will be creating cut paper collages in the style of Henri Matisse. The students will be learning about organic and geometric shapes, as well as how to cut negative/positive shapes using scissors.

THE FIRST PROJECT

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Grade 3 Art Students will begin the year with Wassily Kandinsky! Kandinsky believed that he could show us music in his paintings. He allowed his hand to guide him to make lines and then he completed his artwork with bold colors placed in such a way as to achieve all of the Principles of Design: Balance, Unity, Contrast, Emphasis, Pattern, and Movement.





The students will listen to music and allow their hands to guide them in making lines that flow, zigzag and direct. Then we will paint and color the shapes we have created.

Here I am in New York at the Museum of Modern Art. Behind me are two original Kandinsky paintings. Imagine Wassily Kandinsky actually filled his brush with paint and touched it to the canvases that were next to me!!