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Picasso will be working with Halifax High School in June 09 on a special link project with the Pablo Picasso School in Malaga, Spain. The Art and Foreign Languages Departments combined with one idea. What a fantastic experience for the children.Filbert Splosh has joined LONSAS the London Schools Arts service
Visualise
a special assembly, the whole school is transfixed
as twenty children wearing berets and carrying small cards arrive.
A hush descends and in walks the artist Pablo Picasso complete
with his brushes and palette. The recreation of Pablo Picasso’s life
has begun Later, with a class, keystage 1, keystage 2 or even the whole school, Picasso shows the children how to draw faces by measuring their own with their hands – what a fantsatic art workshop.
Later still, after demonstrating how to mix colour and apply paint in the Picasso fashion, the children have produced a Picassoesque masterpiece. What a great day it has been having an artist in school..
Year
9 are about to start on a project about Surrealism, they are seated in
the hall rather restless. Suddenly, the artist Salvador Dali bursts
in wearing a suit covered in lobsters, mouths drop open and they are
transfixed. The surreal life of Salvador Dali begins
to unfold.In their classes children explore the exquisite corpse, automatic drawing and other surreal methods of generating ideas. Salvador Dali shows them speed drawing, they have never worked so quickly before.
Later, after seeing Dali demonstrate some of his painting techniques the children develop, from their own ideas, a surreal masterpiece. What a fantastic art workshop for keystage 3 and keystage 4.
Monet Day: Englefield Green School
'I learnt about his wife who died. He needed to paint her on a peice of paper just so he could remember her.' R. Year 2
'The best thing was drawing in the hall because he taught us how to draw properly -- to do little dots and flicking the brush to do grass.' W. Year 1
GCSE Inspiration Day: Oldbury Wells School
""The work we did on memories made me think of how I could relate my Art to my memories of my childhood. I liked the idea of hanging the memories onto a framework." Year 11 Student
"The drawing exercises were great; I would have liked to have a go at each one." Year 11 Student
