After considering the contexts of Picasso's Guernica and Goya's Third of May, the fifth graders designed these artworks as agents for social change.
Students worked with solar printing, a process that uses photographic paper to capture shadows created by sunlight.
Non-objective art is a type of art that has no recognizable images, but represents an action or feeling. The fifth graders had two experiences creating non-objective art; first representing the jazz music they heard, and second, representing an action verb they chose.
Math and art unite! Fifth grade students learned about some of the cultural history behind tessellations and the mathematical principles that make them work as part of this lesson.
In studying Picasso's abstractions, the fifth graders learned that he sometimes showed a mood or feelings about a subject through the colors he used and the distortions he made. In a similar manner, the fifth graders created these abstract portraits that show a mood.
Working in the style of Romare Bearden, Mrs. Perkovich's class used information they researched in creating images that tell about events in the lives of members of the civil rights movement.
As part of their celebration of the Chinese New Year, the fifth graders challenged themselves using rules for traditional Chinese landscapes. We learned about expectations for the artist and discussed similarities and differences between landscapes from Eastern and Western art history.
Cut paper self-portraits: In creating these self-portraits, students worked to study the correct shape, placement, and proportion of their features.
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Last updated 5-25-05
