Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Fauvism

My art students' Fauvism paintings look amazing!!

Students spent one class period learning about Henri Matisse and the Fauvism art movement of the early 1900's. Les Fauves is French for wild beasts. Matisse's and his colleagues' works were deemed wild beasts by an art critic that did not understand their expressive use of color. To find out more about Fauvism go to http://www.sanderhome.com/Fauves/.

A to J


K to Z

Teacher Artwork


We have been painting the last 2-3 weeks and learning about different types of paint. I decided to use left-over paint to create a non-objective artwork. One student said it looked like bananas. I think they look like porcupines. What do you see?

Kristi Bernstein
Porcupines
2008
Acrylic and tempera on paper

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Art History Week One

Every Wednesday from now until February, we will have an art history lesson. We will learn five new paintings (artist, title, time period and category) every week until all forty paintings have been learned.

This week we learned the following paintings:

Angelico,The Madonna of Humility, Renaissance, History & Legend

Memling, Portrait of an Old Woman, Renaissance, Portrait

Raphael, Bindo Altoviti, Renaissance, Portrait

Bellini, Saint Jerome Reading, Renaissance, History &Legend

Tintoretto, The Adoration of the Shepherds, Renaissance, History & Legend