EUROPEAN ART AND CULTURE, SOURCE AND INSPIRATION FOR EXTRA VALUE IN EARLY EDUCATION
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EUROPEAN ART AND EUROPEAN ART AND CULTURE,CULTURE,
SOURCE AND INSPIRATION SOURCE AND INSPIRATION FOR EXTRA VALUEFOR EXTRA VALUE
IN EARLY EDUCATIONIN EARLY EDUCATION
2005/2006
The artists we chose to study this year are not all born in France but they all have strong
connexions with the French artistic currents of the 20th century.
When discovering their biography, we realised that most of them had spend some time in France and got under each other’s influence so that it is sometimes difficult to identify them as French or Foreign artists,as if they had become Europeans
before their time….
The selections have been made depending on the artistic objectives we ment to achieve
or if the Artist’s work is connected with a special event
in France this year (exhibition)
Method and materialsWith the teacher, the children discovered various paintings
from ModiglianiThey described what they saw, what they liked and why
They mentioned the shapes and colours used by the artist They noticed some similarities in the various portraits
Then they tried to represent their own view of the portrait , a little bit like the artist!!!
They used tempera and brushes
Another way of dicovering our heritage through arts is to work with the events of the European calendar.
When it is Halloween, we tell tales about witches and make some drawings
Another style of portraits…
The elder ones ( five years old) went to discover the forest surrounding our town for three days in
a nature center, where they could sleep ans
study the life of the animals .They coloured these foxes portraits with chalks using specific
colours
We explained to the children that the owl is the symbol of the city of Athens, first place of our European
meeting
TreesTrees
Exploiting various techniquesExploiting various techniques
Discovering some Artists’ worksDiscovering some Artists’ works Klimt Klimt
Klein Klein Van GoghVan Gogh
Observing the countrysideObserving the countryside
KLIMT, exposed in the « Grand Palais » of Paris this
automn and winter
He has been called the preeminent exponent of ART NOUVEAU. Klimt began (1883) as an artist-decorator. In 1886-92,
Klimt executed mural decorations for staircases at the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Klimt was a cofounder and the first president of the Vienna Secession, a
group of modernist architects and artists who organized their own exhibition
society and gave rise to the SECESSION MOVEMENT, or the Viennese version of
Art Nouveau.
We used tempera and big flat brushes, and the colours
of autumn;
Before, we had been in the forest to observe trees and
mainly birches
After the Artist Yves KLEIN, who worked with sponges
Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war
European neo-DadaismMany of his early paintings were monochrome and in a
variety of colours. By the late 1950s, Klein's monochrome works were almost exclusively in a deep blue hue which
he eventually patented as International Klein Blue
By observing Van Gogh’s technique
Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a
Dutch painter, classified as a Post-impressionist, and is
generally considered one of the greatest painters in the
history of European art. As the pioneer of what came to be
known as Expressionism, Van Gogh has had an enormous
influence on 20th century art, especially in the early part of
the century. His energetic approach to the painted
surface follows a lineage to the Abstract Expressionism
Our First project meeting in Athens November 2005
With the elder children ,we wish to work on the mixing of cultures, inspired by greek mythology and the
gargoyles from Reims Cathedral
After Christmas, we used various techniques to
describe the universe of queens and kings, we also did some puppets for the « Elmer and Walter in the kingdom of Queens and Kings » puppet show
We went to see a show at the « Cirque Educatif » of Reims which
is almost unique in France
We saw clowns, and an elephant.
Klee was born in Switzerland, In 1914, he visited Tunisia
with August Macke and Louis Moilliet and was impressed by the quality of the light there, Klee worked with
many different types of media – oil paint, watercolor, ink,
and more. They often have a fragile child-like quality to them, and are usually on a
small scale. They frequently allude to poetry, music and
dreams and sometimes include words or
musical notation.
After Paul Klee
Connecting abstrac art with the reality of Elmer
Elephants with the younger ones. The shapes have been prepared with grey paper, the
children painted the backgrounds with inks and rollers and put stickers on the stools
Karel Appel (born April 25, 1921) is a Dutch painter,
born in Amsterdam. He was influenced by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and
Jean Dubuffet; he joined CoBrA in 1948.
In 1950 he moved to Paris and then developed his international reputation travelling to Mexico, the
USA, Yugoslavia and Brazil. He is particularly noted for
his mural work and now lives between New York and
Florence.
After Karel Appel