Art Spirit

5th grade Fibonacci Sequence Expressions

 

Inspired by Fibonacci and this fabulous video, we explored the numeric expression as well as the artists expression of the Fibonacci Sequence. 

3rd grade Mural Inspirations

   

 

Art can function to inspire, educate and memorialize. Our city has many public art pieces that serve to teach, imagine and remember people ideas and topic that are important to the community.  Looking at art work that is not only public, that is chosen and funded by the public but also inspirational the student in the 3^rd grade imagined they were chosen by the school to create a mural for the cafeteria. The students generated ideas, created a plan and lastly defined their inspiration for their mural through their informational written artist’s statement.

 

5th grade Futurist inspired Figures

A challenge in figure drawing is getting everything in proportion. While there are lots of subtle differences between individuals, human proportions fit within a fairly standard range, the basic unit of measurement is the 'head', which is the distance from the top of the head to the chin.

This handy unit of measurement is reasonably standard, and has long been used by artists to establish the proportions of the human figure.

The proportions used in figure drawing are:
- An average person, is generally 7-and-a-half heads tall (including the head).
- An ideal figure, used when aiming for an impression of nobility or grace, is drawn at 8 heads tall.
- A heroic figure, used in the heroic for the depiction of gods and superheroes, is eight-and-a-half heads tall Most of the additional length comes from a bigger chest and longer legs.

Students in the 5^th grade created Futurist inspired Figures using the above rules of proportion. Futurism has been defined as a style of the fine arts developed originally by a group of Italian artists about 1910 in which forms derived chiefly from cubism were used to represent rapid movement and dynamic motion.

 

With this definition in mind students choose athletes as reference then created their painting showing movement.

BEAUTIFUL!