The fourth grade students learned about artist Keith Haring and his distinctive style. We talked about about creating movement in art using figures and what it meant if an artwork is figurative. Here are some examples of the Keith Haring Inspired Figure Drawings.
The fifth grade students learned about artist Paul Klee and how he incorporated poems into his art. We looked at his painting, Once Emerged from the Gray of Night. We talked about how he used the lines of the letters to create new shapes and patterns in his artwork. He also used different colors to create the patterns. The students created their Math Patterns using a simple multiplication problem instead of a poem. They created patterns and shapes using the lines of the numbers and symbols.
The sixth grade students created Notans. Notan is a Japanese design term meaning light and dark. In the United States, we tend to use terms like contrast and positive and negative space instead. Students created artwork just from positive and negative space.
