Zoes Kitchen Community Art Exhibit

Twenty-four of our talented Barnwell students participated in a special art display this fall at Zoes Kitchen restaurant on Haynes Bridge Road. Here are some photos of students who attended our opening reception as well as students with their canvas paintings they created.

Pop Art Portraits

Fourth graders learned about British pop artist Andy Warhol and his paintings and screenprints of popular everyday objects as well as his portraits of celebrities. Students then created their own pop art inspired styrofoam prints while exploring color theory, repetition, and proportion in their art.

                                        

 

                                        

Modigliani Inspired Portraits

Third grade students learned about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani and his stylized portraits. Students shared their opinions about the emotions the artist showed with his famous tilted heads, elongated necks and hollow eyes of his subjects. Students then created either a portrait of another person or a self-portrait using some of the same stylized elements of Modigliani's work.

       

 

 

 

Kandinsky Paintings

First grade students learned about active and calm lines in art class and created their own active lines paintings while listening to a variety of jazz music. Next, they demonstrated their knowledge of mixing the primary colors to create secondary colors as they painted inside the shapes they created. Students also learned about the Russian abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky during this lesson on lines and color.

       

 

 

 

 

Piet Mondrian Paintings

Kindergarten students studied directional lines as well as primary colors as they learned about artist Piet Mondrian in art class.

4th Grade Fieldtrip to High Museum of Art

Barnwell fourth graders attended a fieldtrip to the High Museum of Art to take part in the I See Literacy tour which teaches students about reading art as we read text through a series of strategies such as making visual inferences based on what you see or "read" in the work of art. The fieldtrip was a huge success and was greatly enjoyed by both students and teachers!

 

 

 

Warhol Inspired Cats

Second grade students learned about Pop Artist Andy Warhol and his colorful paintings of cats. They drew their own cats and included many details to tell a story about the setting for their cat. Their cat drawings were then painted using pop art inspired colors.