Este año el grupo grande tiene 7 niñas del 2n de primaria de la Escola Santa Anna. Como que el año pasado han investigado la Historia del Arte, y descubrimos que sólo hemos hablado de hombres, hemos decidido de que el tema de este año es: Las Chicas Son Guerreras!…
Este año escolar de 2018-2019 hemos añadido un grupo de niños más: 7 niños de P4 de la Escola Santa Anna. Les introducimos en el mundo artístico a través de clases cortos en que investigan diferentes técnicas y materiales.
Picasso, Part I: Blue Period When Picasso left Barcelona with his best friend Casagemas to find his inspiration in Paris, things didn´t work out very well for them. Casagemas comitted suicide and Picasso was very sad. He only painted in blueish colours. The Children had to imagine a sad situation…
Catalan Modernism: Part I: Arc de Triomf Barcelona is a beautiful city with a lot of history. We are surrounded here with buildings from the Catalan Modernism. So we went to see and observe the Gate to the Universal Expo from 1888, the ´Arc de Triomf´. The story goes that…
Impressionism After studying on Monet, Renoir, Cézanne and Morisot, the little artists had to make their own impressionist painting. They had a photo of a Poppy field and did a great job! Impressionism in Spain: Sorolla First the children had to make sums out of colours. They found out how…
Velázquez: Las Meninas, Part I One of Spain´s most important painter ever is Diego Velázquez. And one of his most famous paintings is ´Las Meninas´. The children saw that painting and made a beautiful collage of a 17th Century Princess, la infanta Margarita. Velàzquez: Las Meninas, Part II Now all the girls could…
Jingle Bells Of course everyone knows the song, but what does it mean actually? What are Jingle Bells? They each made bracelets with little bells, while singing the song. Snow Man The children made a very nice Snow Man out of pompons and cardboard. They loved making it!
Leonardo da Vinci, part I : Mona Lisa We talked about Leonardo da Vinci and how he became one of the most important artists of the world. We found out how to make our own paint with an egg and pigments and the children painted their own Mona Lisa. Leonardo…
Moorish Culture in the Alhambra, Spain (800-1300 A.C.) We talked about the beautiful palace Alhambra in Granada, in the South of Spain. We looked at the particular forms of the windows and doors, and the islamic decoration. Then they cut out their own window and divided the cut-out form in…
Roman Culture, part I (573 B.C.) This month we are playing Art with the Romans. About their culture, their architecture, the roman numbers, their mosaics etc. Especially looked at the Roman influence in Spain. The first class of the new school year. We measured if 1 cm would be 1…
