Recreating Famous Paintings and Greetings From the United Kingdom

It's been a while since I posted. It's actually been a while since I taught a class - two months in fact.

I am actually in the UK at the moment and will be for a few months before returning to my job in Australia. It's a long story but if any teachers are reading this in the UK - let's do lunch! I'm so bored and no one will give me a job over here. So let's make it a cheap lunch because I'm also broke. On a positive note I've been bumming around in galleries in London about once a week which has been amazing!

At the Tate Modern with one of my favourite paintings.

Anyhow - I thought I'd post some lovely drawings some grade 4 and 5 students did at the end of last year as part of an art history assignment I set. They had to research a famous painter and part of the assignment asked them to recreate one of that artist's most well known paintings.

Cezanne:

 

Klimt: 

 

 

Matisse:

 

 Picasso:

 

Van Gogh:

Kahlo:

Klimt Scratch Art

 

Image via Klimt Tree of Life

This project is inspired by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's 1909 painting 'Tree of Life' (pictured left). Students created their own piece of scratch art paper (instructions HERE if you need to find out how to do this). They then used Klimt's painting as inspiration to draw a tree which used the entire space and explored line. The end results remind me of something from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Trees of Life

 Image of Klimt's 'Tree of Life' from jordanhoffman.com

 This project was inspired by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)'s painting 'The Tree of Life' and this lesson from Teach Kids Art which I adapted for my grade twos.

The trees were free standing sculptures but I pinned them up by their bases for display purposes.