Thursday, February 26, 2009

The Wild Beasts

Fauvism (Les Fauves=The Wild Beast) and Henri Matisse were the inspiration for this project. The students cut out, freehand shapes from colored paper and pasted the shapes to paper of their choice.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Impressions

Using oil pastels, the students created their own works inspired by the Impressionist Claude Monet.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Self-Portraits

With the realistic, emotional art that came out of the Renaissance period, it was exciting to see the students create self-portraits based on the bizzare works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.