In March 2020 we were told we would be quarantined until April 6th, then May 26th, then the end of the school year. My husband, the principal of our school, took the opportunity to move the entire school. Classrooms now line up in sequence from K-3 to 2nd grade and Art ended up in a whole other building. The system makes sense and taking advantage of the time on our hands, we accomplished the impossible. Principal Buss utilized the staff on hand, to move, paint, and organize. With much help from our staff, I am grateful for, I was able to relocate my room during online coursework (pandemic problems) of spring and summer semesters (currently in a certification, 2nd degree, Art Education program). I am still awaiting the white board but it is well on it's way to completion.
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My children and I decided to have an art date. It works well because I can get some teaching experience and I have to admit with the heat we were all a bit squirrelly. I didn't spend half the time explaining how awesome Mr. Matisse is and why. We did however accomplish the project with success. In this project the kids create their own paper by painting tempera paint on the paper. It was allowed to dry while they were instructed to make a silhouette of a figure, which I ended up compromising, as long as it had a body and limbs. (I can't and I'm done, two of my least favorite phrases ever uttered by child or student, because it simply is never true) After the silhouette was made we collaged the background with our dry painted papers cut into shapes. Some shapes geometric some shapes organic. Materials Pencil White paper Tempera Paint Brushes Water Black Paper Scissors Glue/Glue Stick ![]() Inspiration In the late 1940s, Henri Matisse turned almost exclusively to cut paper as his primary medium, and scissors as his chief implement, introducing a radically new operation that came to be called a cut-out. Matisse would cut painted sheets into forms of varying shapes and sizes—from the vegetal to the abstract—which he then arranged into lively compositions, striking for their play with color and contrast, their exploitation of decorative strategies, and their economy of means. Initially, these compositions were of modest size but, over time, their scale grew along with Matisse’s ambitions for them, expanding into mural or room-size works. A brilliant final chapter in Matisse’s long career, the cut-outs reflect both a renewed commitment to form and color and an inventiveness directed to the status of the work of art, whether as a unique object, environment, ornament, or a hybrid of all of these. https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1429#:~:text=In%20the%20late%201940s%2C%20Henri,be%20called%20a%20cut%2Dout.&text=Henri%20Matisse%3A%20The%20Cut%2DOuts%20is%20a%20groundbreaking%20reassessment%20of,this%20important%20body%20of%20work. |
AuthorI have a passion for the visual arts and love sharing it with others. I have enjoyed teaching all ages and love to incorporate art history and traditional disciplines as well as innovative ideas. Art is vital to who I am as a creator and educator. Archives
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