muppet abstracts...

The fourth graders have been learning all about different artistic styles this year, and this was a fun one!

We talked about Abstract Art, which uses lines, shapes, and colors to create a composition that doesn't exactly represent the world as we see it. This was a tough concept to grasp for many! Some artists have a need to make it look "real" and in this one, they were being asked to make it not look real!

Since we are using a modified choice, I limited the subject of the artwork to a muppet, or cartoon character; but, the students could choose which character to use, and could use any supplies from the drawing, collage, and painting centers.

The students' goal was to show me an abstract version of the muppet they chose. They could do this by paying close attention to the lines, shapes, colors, and patterns on the muppet, and then recreating them in a different arrangement. It helped to explain that the final artwork should almost be like a mystery to the people viewing it... they should have to put all of the clues together to decide what or who it is!

I think they did a great job... here a few examples... can you name the muppet or cartoon character?

express yourself...

Paulding Elementary Fourth Graders are spending the year learning about different styles of art!

We started out with Fauvism, and this project brought us up close and personal with Expressionism...

The fabulous fourth graders studied lots of different examples of expressionistic artwork,

but looked a little closer at Edvard Munch's "The Scream". 

We created our own Expressionism Paintings by first drawing the main outlines 

of the bridge, water, and sky on our paper. The paper started with a hole in the bottom right for the students face to fit in, so we had to talk about overlapping, and how the body and head should look like it was in front of the bridge and water. 

Some classes had time to glue yarn down over their lines to add some texture to their final paintings!

The fourth graders were supposed to have an emotion that they wanted to portray in mind before they started drawing, so that their lines and colors were expressive of that feeling.

Aren't these amazing?! 

Can you guess the emotions?