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Year 12 Trip to Oriente Museum and Berardo Collection - 18th September 2018
Year 12 Trip to Oriente Museum and Berardo Collection - 18th September 2018
Once again we started the IB Visual Course visiting the Museu do Oriente and the Berardo Collection; where the students heard talks about the collections, the curatorship and a selection of the work on exhibition. Students made notes and studies in the sketchbook which helped them develop work back in the studio.
Year 9 Trip to Arco - 19th June 2018
Year 9 Trip to Arco - 19th June 2018
Today we took all the Year 9 students to Arco, the Art College in Lisbon. The students were treated to workshops created by the specialist Art teachers there; these included Jewellry, Printmaking, Drawing and painting, Film and Photography.
November 2017
November 2017
Jorge Nesbit returns to the SJS studios
Jorge Nesbit returns to the SJS studios
It was great to welcome back Jorge to St Julian's Art Department again. The students were enthralled learning about his Art practice and his unique printing process of colour separating lino into one pressing. In his two visits he helped students to develop and create their own lino prints.
A student from year 12 looking at one of Jorge's large scale prints and below three prints by Year 12 IB Visual Art students.
CHINESE PAINTING WORKSHOP!
Today in the Art department we had the fantastic opportunity to learn from a real Chinese painter! IB students (and teachers of course!) were able to experiment and use an array of traditional Chinese materials to produce a range of inspired pieces.
LIFE DRAWING : Due to 'demand' from our Y13 students we have expanded our Life Drawing processes and are now exploring and experimenting further with copper plate printing and in particular soft ground printing which compliments a more fluid 'Rembrandt' type line. These sessions are in 5 week blocks that allow students, and interested others, to develop their work and their Portfolios. To date on our 'sustained' Monday Life Drawing sessions have included working in clay producing sculpture figurines, in oils creating A1 canvas paintings and now our soft ground copper printing.
Meanwhile the ever popular Thursday after school sessions with different models and varying poses, materials and techniques continues to produce some strong outcomes.
YEAR 10 ART TRIP TO FUNDAÇÃO ARPAD SZENES AND VIEIRA DE SILVA AND THE MUSEU DO AGUA
On Tuesday, Year 10 Art students went on a trip to the Vieria de Silva Museum and the Museu da Água in Lisbon to enrich our learning outside of the classroom. In the morning we had a guide tell us all about Vieria de Silva's work and we made some notes and did some sketches to enhance our skills of recording information quickly. Then in the afternoon we went to the Museu da Água via some amazing past aquaducts where we took many photos for our research. Finally we did some tonal drawings and 3 point perspective drawing of the Museu. It was an amazing trip for all involved, Thank you to all the teachers and staff that made this possible.
Freya 10VH
ART TRIP
ART TRIP
Article Written by Year 12 students (Matilde Dimas and Carlota Hildenbrand) 21st September 2017
As Year 12 IB Art students we have begun with the topic “What Is Art?” In order to give us an insight into this question a trip was organised to visit 2 very different museums in Lisbon.
Trip to Fundação Oriente
We started off the day by going to the Museu de Oriente. Its purpose is to show the connection between Portugal and its colonies in the east including Macau, Japan, Goa, Timor, China and its artwork. We explored what brings value to art and the Museum highlighted how artefacts maybe curated in a very different manner.
Interestingly, the structure of the museum itself, before opening, was a storage unit where they would store codfish. With guidance from the P-06 Atelier (design studio) historical accuracy was preserved in the architecture to pay homage to the story of the building; very similar to how the museum deals with its own art pieces.
Trip to Fundação Berardo
The second museum we visited was the ´Fundação Berardo’ where we had a guide to talk us through the ideas behind conceptual art.
An annual light bulb, it lights up once a year, for eleven seconds at a random time.
A painting titled as a sculpture due to its three dimensional element as a canvas.
Code embedded paintings that challenges the viewer to solve its riddles.
These were only some of the pieces that changed our understanding of art. These various works all managed to break the typical 3-5 second window during which viewers typically regard art and held our interest for far longer, teaching us how to captivate viewers when our time to curate exhibitions comes. More than anything, this visit taught us that an art piece uses the viewer as its key element and that our interaction with a piece is what makes it memorable or not.
Finally our trip taught us how a piece of art, even though being nothing but a white/blue canvas still continues to be art, and that one cannot disregard it or undermine it as a piece itself solely due to opinion, it has so much more behind it than you think.
Monday 19th June
Monday 19th June
Art and Geography Animation Project
Art and Geography Animation Project
Art have collaborated with Geography to facilitate an animation project. Pupils in Year 8 have been asked to explore the issues behind endangered species within the small and local region of the Iberian Peninsular. Pupils used their previous knowledge and understanding and were given opportunities to extend and research these issues further. With this they were excited to create and edit short films, explaining which animals are endangered, why this is, what humans can do to help protect these animals and why this is important. It has been an exciting and fast paced day and the students should be very pleased with their outcome.
Well Done Year 8!
Yr 8 Animation.mp4Friday 17th March 2017 - IB Final Show
Friday 17th March 2017 - IB Final Show
21st January 2017 - Glass workshop
21st January 2017 - Glass workshop
The Art Department has the facilities for students to work with ceramics and fired materials, but we have never ventured into glass before. So this workshop was an exciting opportunity to learn from a glass specialist and see what we could do within our own studio. Catarina our teacher is a glass specialist and runs her own glass studios. She had visited earlier in the week to run some tests in our kilns and to help us develop a few techniques that we can add into our repertoire of processes and techniques. Today we learnt slumping and fusing methods. We will have to wait until our work has been fired in the kiln, but it was a tremendously informative and fun morning!
Year 12 Printing Workshop Part Two - Monday 14th November 2016
Year 12 Printing Workshop Part Two - Monday 14th November 2016
It was great to welcome back Jorge Nesbitt for the second part of the Year 12 Printing workshop. Whilst he was away the students have been busy preparing their printing plates. A few had started to experiment with printing their linos, but Jorge came back to show us how a 'Master' print-maker works and to share his tips on how to improve our techniques. The students learnt so much; from pigment and paper qualities to which way you roll the ink - there are many subtle changes that can help to improve a print. The student even learnt how to use Jorge's own cut out method of inserting second or third colours into their work. it was a
Year 12 Printing Workshop Part One. - Monday 31st October 2016
Year 12 Printing Workshop Part One. - Monday 31st October 2016
On Monday 31st October the Department welcomed Jorge Nesbitt, Head of Illustration from Ar.Co into our studios. Jorge combines lecturing at Ar.co where he teaches Illustration, drawing and printmaking with his won professional practice. During the workshop Jorge talked about his own artwork including the book he illustrated of Gertrude Stein's "The World is Round". He showed the development of his work upto the most recent printmaking series. It was a fascinating talk about artistic practice with an open discussion with the studens about his ideas, process and the refinement of his work into final outcomes. He brought with him one of his large scale 'Printers proofs' to show the students the scale, composition, materials and mark-making that he is currently using. Jorge's latest work is a series of large scale lino prints that are unusually printed in one session but using inserted cutout colours. It was a fabulous opportunity for the students to see first hand lino printing on a mamoth scale, whereby they could study the complex range of marks and techniques that Jorge had used prior to starting their own lino prints.
Jorge then introduced simple processes and concepts that the students should apply to their own lino printing - making reference to other artists such as the German expressionsist block prints of Nolde amongst others. Each student then set about developing their own lino composition based on images and sources from their earlier project. For the next two weeks students will be developing their lino prints ready for Jorge's return in a few weeks time.
NABA - LAUREATE UNIVERSITIES VISIT - Thursday 20th October 2016
NABA - LAUREATE UNIVERSITIES VISIT - Thursday 20th October 2016
On thursday 20th October Joao Rosa a freelance glass designer and Admissions Representative for the Laureate Design Universities came to talk to the Year 12 and Year 13 Art and Design Techology students about choosing careers in Design and the Arts. In addition to talking about the new university of Arts in Milan - NABA, Joao talked to the studetsn about portfolios, applications and what to look for when applying to courses. This was a fantastic opportunity for students to listen to first hand professional advice about careers, study and courses.
NABA also offers summer courses for prospective students. Already two St Julian's alumni are studying at NABA and it is easy to understand what attracted them to the highly competive and practical courses - which promise students the opportunity to learn whilst working on 'live' commercial projects with big industry names in product design and fashion. NABA Website Link
Year 11 Art Trip to the Gulbenkian - Thursday 20th October
Year 11 Art Trip to the Gulbenkian - Thursday 20th October
To kick start the Year 11 GCSE trial exam project students visited the Gulbenkian Foundation and CAM in Lisbon. To view Art face to face allows for much more understanding and appreciation of masterpieces.
Pupils spent the morning viewing and transcribing works of Art from the permanent classical collection. This included many Oriental and European masterpieces from artists such as Rodin and Turner.
VERA World Fine Art Festival - 8th -16th October 2016
VERA World Fine Art Festival - 8th -16th October 2016
22 students from Years 10 to 13 participated in the first Vera World Fine Art Festival open to Schools. Invited as one of only 10 schools selected St Julian's Art Department joined professional Artists from around the world in an Exhibition of Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Installation, Video work and Decorative Arts.
The Big Draw Festival -10th- 14th October 2016
The Big Draw Festival -10th- 14th October 2016
If you were to stumble into the Main Hall at any lunchtime this week, you were likely to stop, blink, and stare in wonder. You would have been fortunate to witness new inventions. Maths protractors, set squares, chemistry beakers, pipettes, long pieces of bamboo, paintbrushes, rollers, and plant waterers amongst a few items, were being used to engineer new drawing devises. Some would have viewed this as chaos in a dimly lit room. Others would have been mesmerised and valued that there were up to 250 pupils at one time, inventing, creating and collaborating towards a whole school artistic outcome. We’ve all drawn using a pencil but who has been able to hold a homemade paint roller that is 3 times longer than they are tall, enabling them to create their own artistic marks and signatures on 12m long pieces of paper?
Slowly retreating, you could be mistaken for thinking you have fallen down Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole, as you up right yourself inside an oversize camera obscurer. Physics has determined that images are viewed upside down. Curiosity has determined that you visit this space.
The question is why? Why have these activities occurred?
These ambitious activities have been fabricated to celebrate the International Big Draw Festival. Every pupil has had the opportunity to create their mark on St Julian’s, first Big Draw masterpiece. The theme for this event has been STEAM. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths have all come together to create a unique large scale stunning success. We personally want to thank all pupils involved and ask that they all take pride in their contributions and continue with their creativity.
Year 10 Trip to Vieira da Silva and the Museu de Agua - Tuesday 4th October 2016
Year 10 Trip to Vieira da Silva and the Museu de Agua - Tuesday 4th October 2016
As part of their first coursework unit 'Structures and Environments' the Year 10 students visited the Fundaçâo Arpad Szenes and Vieira da Silva and the Museu de Agua in Rato, Lisbon.
Curating Collections - Year 12 Visual Arts students talk to the Museums -
Curating Collections - Year 12 Visual Arts students talk to the Museums -
Thursday 14th September 2016
Thursday 14th September 2016
Life Drawing at St Julian's School
Life Drawing at St Julian's School
We believe that life drawing is a crucial element of Art education. It not only teachers, observation, proportion and drawing techniques. Life drawing is offered to all IB and 2nd Year GCSE students. Teachers, parents and members of the St Julian's Community are welcomed, for a small fee. This mixed range and ability group is
Arts Activity Day 2016 - June 13th 2016
Arts Activity Day 2016 - June 13th 2016
Year 8 spent one inquisitive day exploring international art forms. Pupils were introduced to the practice of Tenchi Tessen, Aikido and Stickology alongside Chinese Visual Arts. This all cleverly linked in with their own concerns over geographical changes. Staff members and professionals collaborated, providing opportunities for pupils to investigate new concepts and connect their knowledge through the process of dance and movement. Pupils created a beautiful and breathtaking whole year group performance that truly impressed. St Julian´s School patio was filled with focused pupils with meditative mindsets. All were engaged and appreciative of other's ideas and newly devised performances. All staff are stunned by what a group of sometimes unruly teenagers can achieve in only a day. The work produced and the connecting of knowledge was exceptional, and all should give themselves a well deserved pat on the back.
Year 8 spent one inquisitive day exploring international art forms. Pupils were introduced to the practice of Tenchi Tessen, Aikido and Stickology alongside Chinese Visual Arts. This all cleverly linked in with their own concerns over geographical changes. Staff members and professionals collaborated, providing opportunities for pupils to investigate new concepts and connect their knowledge through the process of dance and movement. Pupils created a beautiful and breathtaking whole year group performance that truly impressed. St Julian´s School patio was filled with focused pupils with meditative mindsets. All were engaged and appreciative of other's ideas and newly devised performances. All staff are stunned by what a group of sometimes unruly teenagers can achieve in only a day. The work produced and the connecting of knowledge was exceptional, and all should give themselves a well deserved pat on the back.
GCSE Exhibition Private View - Friday 2nd June 2016
GCSE Exhibition Private View - Friday 2nd June 2016
IB Visual Arts Exhibition Private View - Friday 4th March 2016
IB Visual Arts Exhibition Private View - Friday 4th March 2016
mural Export.mp4Arts Activity Day 2015
Arts Activity Day 2015
As part of the Whole School Activity Week, the department delivered an Art workshop for Year 8 based on the traditional Blue Portuguese tiles, Azulejos.
As part of the Whole School Activity Week, the department delivered an Art workshop for Year 8 based on the traditional Blue Portuguese tiles, Azulejos.
The whole year group were divided into their houses. Each house was given a series of jigsaw puzzles - unknown images containing only black and white tones, textures and details. Together they had to 'scale-up' the jigsaw tiles into larger images transcribing the various black and grey tones into blues.
The whole year group were divided into their houses. Each house was given a series of jigsaw puzzles - unknown images containing only black and white tones, textures and details. Together they had to 'scale-up' the jigsaw tiles into larger images transcribing the various black and grey tones into blues.
Finally they had to piece the tiles together to make their final compositions - applying them to a freize that wrapped around the Palacio Patio.
Finally they had to piece the tiles together to make their final compositions - applying them to a freize that wrapped around the Palacio Patio.
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