Every weekday morning this week and next I am teaching nine children about famous artists. I developed a class where each day we become the artist of the day through drama, art history and hands-on projects. We are having a super time! We have painted the blue and red periods of Pablo Picasso, sculpted negative and positive spaces like Henry Moore and created some pretty crazy surrealism like Salvador Dali.
We also worked on stained glass windows like Marc Chagall, in our case made from plexiglass and tissue paper, and painted with thick, swirly paint like Vincent Van Gogh. The kids are fascinated with the lives of the artists and I try to put some interesting stories in so they will remember it better. You can't beat Van Gogh cutting off his ear for dramatics!
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