We cover art once a week. To make for a fun start to the term, we have kicked off by looking at Jackson Pollock. We spent the first lesson reading about his life and studying his pictures. We also found a video online of him painting in his studio in New York, which really gave us a feeling of the movement, excitement and enthusiasm in his painting. The girls then spent some time writing about what they saw in his art.
J wrote: “The big lines and fast splashes make me feel like I am moving very fast”
K decided: “I thought that the pictures would all look similar, but because of the colours some are happy and some are sad. And the drips are different sizes, which makes it different too.”
In the following lesson I decided to let them create their own Pollock-inspired masterpiece. We started by using a website where you can draw your own picture, and talked about the colours they wanted to use in their own composition, Then I let them loose with paint!
They had lots of fun and came up with two very different but both very creative pieces of work!
J and her colourful masterpiece
To round off this study, both girls created a piece of work on Pollock. J did a poster, with information about his life and her thoughts about a couple of his pieces of work, while K used the computer to create a presentation on the artist.
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