Week 28

The Belmont Repertory Theater visited Abintra and performed three wonderful takes on old folk tales.

ECA has been studying the work of Ellsworth Kelly, an American minimalistic artist whose sensitivity to color influenced his use of colors, lines, and shapes.  

ECB continues their work with stamping by using fruit such as apples and oranges. 

 

ECC is learning about the Africa and how masks are an important part of their culture.   Children created their masks by pin punching holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth and then used crayons to decorate. A Popsicle stick is added to the bottom of the mask as a handle.

LE continued weaving for their spring project.  They also wrote a Haiku to go with their artwork. 

Nashville-based artist, Jairo Prado,  visited UE to speak about his artistic processes and concepts, as well as his experience working with the Frist Center’s community outreach team and a community group from Conexión Américas on the exhibition Connecting Cultures: Children’s Stories from Across the World.  Jairo collaborated with Abintra students years ago to create this wooden sculpture on campus.

MS is also studying the work of Ellsworth Kelly.  They are creating a collaborative piece influenced by his work. 

Week 27

ECA explores colors, specifically, mixing primary colors to make secondary colors, using an eye dropper and food coloring.

ECB continues to explore the many ways of printmaking by using the end of a celery stalk to make prints. 

 

ECC students asked for blank paper after studying Van Gogh’s "Sunflowers" and "Starry Night". They were given blank paper and watercolor to create whatever they would like with this work.

Artwork by Madeline

LE is kicking off the Spring season by creating a multimedia piece involving weaving, haiku, painting, and collage about what Spring is to them.  This project will take 3 weeks so be sure to check back to see the final piece.

 

ME created collage butterflies as part of their unit on symmetry...in this case, bilateral.  They've combined some of their woven Ojos de Dios, God’s Eyes, with the butterflies just for fun!

 

Middle School studied the nature sculptures of Andy Goldsworthy and watched parts of his documentary, Rivers and Tides.  Over spring break they created their own nature sculptures inspired by his work.

Nature Sculpture by Adam

Aftercare Art students take advantage of this beautiful Spring weather by taking their art outside.  They each picked a spot on campus to do a drawing of.

 

Week 26

LE studied the work of Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt.  They created paintings inspired by his work, The Tree of Life.

"Tree of Life" by Ryder

ME’s final project with bilateral symmetry uses color opposites to create optical effects.

 

To wrap up their study of European Renaissance art, UE took on the challenge of doing a realistic drawing of a live model focusing on capturing the right perspective, proportions, and dimensions.

 

AC kicked off the spring season with these bright and colorful multimedia paintings.

Week 25

EC, along with the upper school classes,  have spent a significant amount of time doodling this year.  You will see this in the up and coming yearbook!  Doodles are often overlooked, but should be seen as integral to the process of an artist.   “For children, doodling is their way of expressing their ideas and showing their perceptions in visual form. It comes from a need to give physical form to one’s thoughts. “  To understand more about the importance of doodling, please read this wonderful article in Smashing Magazine. 

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/08/03/i-draw-pictures-all-day/

LE studied the work of the Spanish Catalan artist, Joan Miro.  While listening to Spanish music with layers of moods, the students freely drew lines that formed shapes to illustrate what they were feeling . They then painted in the shapes in the style of Miro.

To continue their study of bilateral symmetry, ME created theses letternets.  Letternets are  mirror images of their names written in cursive on a folded paper and then cut out.

ME also visited the Nashville Children’s Theater to see the performance of, The Wind in the Willow.  This production is adapted by Scot Copeland and Paul Carrol Binkley

and based on the book by Kenneth Grahame and the songs of Gilbert and Sullivan.

UE continued their study of European Renaissance art focusing on the human figure drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci.  After reviewing his sketches and drawings, the students practiced drawing each other focusing on perspective, proportion, and dimension.

UE also visited the Nashville Symphony to see the performance of, The Red Violin, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

MS completed their Alexander Calder inspired sculptures.