T2 Newsletter 1415

Wow!  Another very hard-working (and quick!) term!

We have been hard at work creating some impressive and high-quality art work for our topic 'Gallery Rebels!'

This topic focused upon how art work is presented in galleries and exhibitions.  We started off by looking at how artists can create a varied palette of colour using just the primary colours of red, blue and yellow.  These can be mixed to create the secondary colours of purple, orange and green.  Mixing them in different ratios (a bit of Maths work here!) will create different shades of colour.  These are known as the tertiary colours.  If we add black to a colour we get a tone.  If we add white, we get a tint!  We painted colour wheels to show our understanding of this.

We then looked at the art styles of Cubism and Surrealism; learning all about this style and the artists who have used it (such as Picasso, Juan Gris, Salvador Dali etc).  In Literacy we wrote explanations of these art styles and biographies of the most influential artists in this area.

We then created a wide range of exhibition-worthy pieces of art work, including:

  • Landscape, portrait and still life paintings in the Cubism style, using acrylic paints.
  • Surreal origami sea-dragons.
  • Decopatch hearts.
  • Surreal 'busts' (or heads) using decopatch paper.  These look like human heads covered in animal skins!  Weird!
  • Papier mache 'surreal' birds.

In the exhibition, we included examples of our amazing Home Learning!  We created our own sculptures in the cubism or surrealism style and the quality was excellent!  From spiders crawling out of papier mache heads, to a human hand made from part of a tree - it is very weird indeed!

Please come and have a look our work in the Reception - it is displayed for a limited time only! 

 

All of this on top of some BRILLIANT Maths and English work.  We really couldn't be more prepared for the SATs tests which are looming on the horizon next term.

Watch this space...I am sure we will be our usual brilliant selves!