Art

The Primary School Art programme at UWCSEA East offers students a chance to foster creativity and communicate their thinking through the intentional exploration and creation of artworks. They explore different media and techniques guided by the class teacher and not only present their own work but learn how to view, interpret and appreciate the work of others. Throughout the Primary School years, students will explore a wide range of media, with an emphasis both on the process used to create artwork and on the presenting the finished product.

While creating and viewing art we examine, discuss and use the Elements and Principles of Design. The elements include 'Line,' 'Shape,' 'Colour,' 'Space,' 'Texture,' 'Value,' and 'Form.' The principles we focus on are 'Pattern,' 'Emphasis,' 'Variety,' 'Rhythm,' 'Unity,' 'Balance,' and 'Movement.'

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UNIT ONE

Jungle scene inspired by Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau was not a trained artist but in fact self-taught. He loved the idea of the rainforest, but did not draw from a real life rainforest setting, merely going to botanical gardens and sketching from there. He painted a lot from his imagination.

Inspired by Henri Rousseau's art piece, “Surprise”, students will create their own art piece of jungle scene using their own imagination showing an understanding of foreground, mid ground and background, overlapping and tints of shades of colour.

UNIT TWO

IN THE STYLE OF - HENRI MATISSE

Students will study the life, time and art of Henri Matisse to create an expressive cutout composition using amorphic shapes to tell a story that they created with colored construction paper. Students will be able to identify the three categories of shape: geometric, biomorphic and amorphic.

UNIT THREE

Art inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

FRUIT FACES

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th century Italian painter with a style that can only be described as unique. This late Renaissance master became famous not for religious scenes or traditional paintings, but for portraits of people made entirely from composites of produce and other objects. From fruit to books, Arcimboldo found ways to create the appearance of human heads from numerous everyday items, adding a distinct touch of humor to art history. Inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s work students will create their own clay modeling fruit face art piece.

Art