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MODIGLIANI PORTRAITS
The third graders studied the Italian artist Amadeo Modigliani. He was known for the long faces, noses, and necks of his portraits. The students created their own Modigliani self-portraits using a variety of artistic media.
(Anything But) Gum Ball Machines
The third graders studied the pop artist Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud's favorite subject was sweets such as cakes, pies, and candy. he also painted a series of gum ball machines. The students' challenge was to make gum ball machines with something whimsical in them. It could not be any kind of candy or toy that you might see in such a machine.
Completed Gum Ball Machines
Fauvist Animals
The third graders studied the artist Henri Matisse, the leader of the Fauvist art movement. Fauvist paintings are colorful. The word "Fauve" is French for "wild beast". The artists were called this because they used colors arbitrarily, as seen in Matisse's famous painting The Green Stripe in which a woman has a green stripe down the middle of her face.
Quilting Bee
To celebrate Black History Month, the third graders studied the quilts of a group of African American women from Gee's Bend, Alabama.
Bren Bataclan Creature Sketches
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