WEEKLY ART UPDATE!!!!!
3rd, 4th and 5th: Students finished up working on paintings inspired by Picasso’s “The Portrait of Dora Maar”. Next they learned about Salvador Dali and completed art inspired by his famous painting “The Elephants”. 5th graders combined mathematics and art and began working on a tesselation project inspired by M.C. Escher.
1st and 2nd: Students learned about Salvador Dali and completed a crazy portrait of him complete with a mustache. 1st graders also worked in clay and created birds that are ready to be fired for the first time. 2nd graders completed clay pieces based on Donatello’s lion sculpture from the Renaissance. The next stop was the famous Spanish artist Joan Miro and they played the game “Roll a Miro” to complete a representation of his art work.
