"Images of Arlington" art exhibit at the Arlington Center for the Arts
***The following letter was sent home with the fifth graders about this exhibit. Please take the time to read as all Arlington fifth graders are involved in this art show.***

Dear Arlington 5th graders and families,
We are so pleased to welcome you to the 5th annual “Images of Arlington” art exhibit!
All Arlington 5th graders will be creating their own unique “Images of Arlington” in their art classes at school. ALL the students’ artwork will be on display at the Arlington Center for the Arts from March 29 through May 16, 2010. We look forward to exhibiting your artwork and seeing you here for a fun celebration of your artwork and our town! Your art teachers will explain the Images of Arlington project in class. Our hope is that each of you will think of something special about Arlington that you will share with our community.

YOU’RE INVITED! Please join us for a special exhibit of ALL the students’ artwork:
Images of Arlington Art Exhibit Sunday, May 16, 2-4pm Arlington Center for the Arts 41 Foster Street
We look forward to seeing you on May 16 for a wonderful celebration of all the children’s artwork! Refreshments will be served.

IN RECOGNITION OF OUTSTANDING WORK, ACA will select one artwork from each class which will be published in the Arlington Advocate. In addition, ACA will award special honorable mention to other outstanding artworks, which will be featured online at ACA’s website, acarts.org.

Winning Artwork will be selected based on:
1. ORIGINALITY (depicting a place in Arlington and making it “your own” through creative
use of materials or point of view)
2. SKILL (demonstrating a high level of accuracy in drawing – for example, using perspective
and proportion in a drawing of architecture)
3. EFFORT (demonstrating that the artist really cared about doing a careful, well-thought-out job)
4. CHOICE OF SUBJECT (capturing something unique about Arlington or presenting a familiar
Arlington landmark in a unique way).
ARLINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS 41 Foster Street, Arlington MA 02474 www.acarts.org | (781) 648-6220




Gustav Klimt Paintings

The fifth grade students created paintings in the style of the Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).

First the students discussed two of Klimt’s paintings, “The Kiss” (1907) and “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” (1907), noting how they were similar in the patterning and the gold color used in both. Klimt is known for his “Golden Phase” where he used gold leaf extensively in his work. The students then learned that gold leaf is a thin gold foil that is commonly used in decorating.

The students were then instructed to create their own painting based on Klimt’s using tempera paint and gold tempera paint to replicate the gold leaf in Klimt’s work. Most students used colored pencil for the faces, skin, and hair, which resemble the duller skin colors in Klimt’s work.