Art lessons

Art class 16.3.2011

Another one from amazing art classes. We just kept going in selfportraits in different ways. This time we had received pictures of already made potraits and our goal was to get inspired by this and try to situate ourselves into those pictures. It was really interesting. Everyone could do what he felt to do. Just take a look at it!!





body painting?







or colour fighting?





mirror monoprint





OK, back to work...





these are few of our modified monoprints



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Art lesson – Expressionism presentation

Expressionism – origin

•      Roots of expressionism – Germany, France

•      Created as a opposition to impressionism and naturalism

•      Name itself says the purpose is to EXPRESS something

Development

•      * at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th century

•      Its popularity was rising during and mainly after World War I

•      Golden age for expressionism: 1910-1920

•      1905 - * Der Brücke (till 1913)

•      1911 - * Der Blaue Reiter (till 1914)

Characteristics

•      Usage of pure colours, no focus on perspective, fields of colours usually difined by black lines

•      Expressionism was influenced by: children´s drawing, Friedrich Nietzsche, prehistoric paintings, psychological research, neoimpressionism



Edward Munch - The Scream

 

Emil Nolde - The Crucifixtion



 

Egon Schiele

 

 

Abstract expressionism

•      Jackson Pollock – drip painting

 (action painting)

•      Michael Weismor

•      Mark Rothko

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Michael Weismor

  


Mark Rothko - Gates

  


Mark Rothko - Gates

     


Jackson Pollock

 

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Homework for Art lesson (portrait with an expression)

Our homework for next art lesson was to draw a portrait of person with an expression.

Well and this was the process of trying to do it ....

focused on work



born to draw ;-)



drawing together......lets make an expression



We had a very good time during working on our portraits. First we had to decide whom to draw and it then we had to make some space for our work, which was fun too (removing the table, proper lighting of desktop... :-D).



When it was done, we could indulge ourselves in drawing and creativity. Nela decided to draw Nadal and she did very well. Vítek made a portrait of Glum (from ´The Lord of The Rings´) with very scary expression. Laura chose to draw Gerald Butler (from the film ´300´) and I was drawing a portrait of happy cheerful woman.

Drawing together was really great, everybody was so focused that we barely talk and just were just listening music and drawing.

 

Finally our work was done and  hours we had spent working on it were worthful.

 

it is possible to draw everywhere



I think we have learnt a lot during this. Not only about drawing itself, how to draw nose, eyes, how to put anger or happiness in them…, but also how it is good to work together, even if not on the same thing. Because we could encourage each other to work hard and to work till the work is done, in other words it is much easier to do something when you have friends around.

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02.03. Art lesson - Colours

Today in the art lesson we talked about the colours and about their meanings.

In the morning we started analyzing our homework. It was a simple portrait and we could saw what we have to practice a little bit more and what we can do really good.


( I recognized, I have to practice a lot! :P )


After this we separeted in 3 groups and we had to compare and analyze some picture.We talked about colours, expressions and meanings. We choose two amazing picture.














After some break we got a camera and a partner and we took pictures our partner.
Are you ready? 1, 2, 3... Show emotion!!! :)Dorte printed it and the fun began.

We had to color our partner's photo whit oil pastel and our knowledge about colours.The final result was quite amazing and I'm really look forward to the next lesson! :)

 

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Art with Dorte (23. 2. 2011)

Nela and Vítek drawing their 20minutes selfportraits

Papers, pencils, crayons, charcoals, eyes and hands...these were our hardware for today art lesson. Enthusiasm and our abilities were the software. Put together it created a number of portraits more or less similar to the model who was drawn.

Everybody was working hard and although our works were only the shadows of what we wanted to create we enjoyed it a lot and had great time down in art classroom.

Our five minutes selfportraits



Our final works



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Art lessons – Conclusion by Michaela Lišková

In just five hours of art with Dorte, we had a chance to try out for many of us many new techniques and ways to create, and some of us have drawn and painted so deeply for the first time in their life.

The first lesson was in the name of drawing a portrait. First, we trained five-minute portraiture. At first it seemed impossible for us to create something a bit like a human face just only in five minutes, but gradually, drawing one portrait after another, we found out that it is still easier and easier. This exercise gave me a lot because I was always used to have a lot of time for drawing, which is not always the best, because you do not concentrate so intensively, and on the other hand five or fifteen minute portraits require immediate attention and a sharp eye. It's about not thinking so much about unnecessary details, but watching and really drawing what I see. This means that we have tried to link that what we saw with that what we draw. In other words, connect the eye with the hand and though activate the right brain hemisphere.

 I also think that this training showed us that we actually CAN draw, that it is not impossible for us to create something quite good and also showed us that we can make progress step by step if we try.

Also homework we made helped us to understand that hard work is important and if we want to improve it is essential. The first task was to draw any portrait of our fellow students or whomever. To do this we received printed materials about how to draw a nose, eyes, shape of face, lips, etc. With this assistance, and unlimited time to work, we could really learn how the human face works.

 Another hour was associated with the colours and their meanings which we later used for creating expressionistic portraits based on photos we had made.

As for my future practice as an art teacher I will certainly use the technique of five-minutes portraits and monoprints. Because both of these techniques supports a creativity of a child and helps to overcome usual obstacles like a fear of doing things wrong or not knowing how to start. This (monoprinting) technique absolutely surprised me. I knew about it before, but I had never used it that way we did. That provided us with something to start with. Because usually we start with plain white paper and it is sometimes quite hard to start with painting. And monoprinting already gave us some kind or frame or field to work with. It was like an inspiration or starting point so that all of us discovered something new in the painting.

Concerning my portrait from that day I have to admit that I over did it and therefore I am not so comfortable with my work, but I really enjoyed making it and learnt that sometimes less is more, which is always my problem and I have to work on it. And I am sure I will use this way of painting again and not only with portraits.

Also using famous paintings as an inspiration for creating one´s own painting or drawing is a great way how to work during art classes. Because already made picture is a great source of information. That is to say we can try to use the technique in which is the picture painted or colours and at the same time we can learn about the painting itself, about its author, about the technique, about the period when the painting was made and so on.

This will be very usable also during lessons about the history of art, because children can learn about certain period, impressionism for instance, and artists of that period and then they can try to make their own impressionistic painting, using same technique and colours like impressionists did.

Misha