Art Alive week rotation

Back to school...great! In Term 2 our topic is Art Alive.  Pt England school is learning about different artists and the types of art they do. Team 5 had an immersion rotation to learn about different artists and the technique they use. Each teacher in Team 5 had an artist to focus on.

On Monday afternoon everyone had to stay in their own class to learn about the particular artist that their teacher has picked. First my class, Room 21 had to learn about an artist called Henry Matisse who was born on 31 December 1869 at Cateau- Cambresis in France. He liked to use lots of bright colours, different shapes and different patterns. The style that he used was Fauvism which means ‘Wild Beast’ One of his paintings were of his wife. I guess he painted her because he loved her so much. As soon as he got old he started to do cut-outs which was easier because he was in a wheelchair. He also believed that colours could heal people. He passed away on 3rd of December 1954 because of a heart attack at the age of 84.

The next day was another rotation in Mrs Nua’s class. We were learning about Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was born in Groot-Zunder on 30th of March 1853 and died on 29 July 1890.The style that he used was Expressionism. People say that he accidentally chopped off his ear, which is true, but they say he put it in a box and sent it to his girlfriend?. He was a person that haven’t become a famous artist until he died, which was in 29th of July 1890. How did he get famous? Well his sister-in-law convinced people to buy his painting. But the only painting that he sold when he was alive was one, which was only worth $1,000 grand. He had a mental illness and gave his bloody cut ear lobe to a woman that he knew. HIs life to me was really strange. If I was in a situation like that all I would do is be calm and probably pray. But apart from all that, he had a real tough life.

The next rotation was with Mr Barks, but I didn’t go because I was away.

On Friday afternoon room 21 had to move onto the next rotation. The class we had to go to was Room 19. We learned about a man called Claude Monet. He was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. He died of lung cancer on December 5th 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in Giverny church cemetery. Randomly sitting and painting, Room 21 was allowed to paint any picture we wanted to, as long as we did brush strokes or dabs. Mr Slade wanted to call it dots but then he didn’t. Claude Monet was a impressionist artist. In that class most of us got paint on our uniform, even on our faces. It was pretty funny. Some of us called it paint fight. It didn’t really matter because it was friday the last day of the school week.