This term the Yr 3’s have learnt about ‘Optical Art’ movement and the artist ‘Bridget Riley’ and ‘MC Escher’. They explored how optical art is created using lines & shapes to create optical illusions. The students needed to use mathematics/measurement to make their optical artwork.

    Bridget Riley ‘optical art’

Here are the students optical artworks. How good do these look laying next to each other!!!!!!

Well done Yr’3 students. Lots of mathematics needed to measure correctly.

These look great 🙂

Miss Manna

The Yr 4’s and 4/5 classes have been learning about the art movement ‘Op Art’ (optical art) and the artist Bridget Riley & MC Escher.

The mathematical style ‘Optical Art’ was first created by MC Escher in the early 1930’s , he was an expert at creating illusions through the volumes and shapes he included in his illustrations. He was an amazing mathematician and artist and combined his talents to create his famous works.

  Mc Escher

Bridget Riley is a British contemporary ‘Optical artist’  who was inspired by MC Escher’s earlier works. She has develop a more stylized, geometric version of ‘Optical Art’. Her work is mostly black and white large scale paintings and her work is known to cause motion sickness.

Her works are very graphic and are created so your eyes move around and back-and- forth across her paintings. This causes the illusion that they are moving. Our eyes are being tricked!!

The students were asked to create a cube with optical illusions drawn on each side of the cube. They needed to use very careful measurements and ruling up to create straight lines.

Here are some completed works.

WOW!!! what detail and precision with the line work.

Well done everyone!

Miss Manna 🙂

The Yr 3 students have been learning about ‘Pop Art’ and the artist Roy Lichtenstein. He is famous for creating large scale paintings and also made sculptures.

He was influenced by cartoon comics and the way they were made using printing machines that produced small dots of colours called ‘Ben-day dots. He created his works as a very large scale paintings. He was criticised during the time of POP ART in the 1950’s to 1960’s for his work; he was told his style of art ‘Is not Art’.

Many ‘Pop’ artworks use mostly primary colours and thick black lines, and the subjects in the artwork are everyday popular objects/items/people.

Whaam! 1963 Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997 

The students created their own Roy Lichtenstein inspired collage ‘onomatopoeia’ comic book style art.

They needed to select a word that no-one else had and draw it in large bubble writing. Then they needed to draw ‘Ben-day’ dots on the words. All the other parts were drawn and cut out of primary coloured paper and placed to make the composition. Once they were happy all the parts were glued down.

WOW!!!! These are fantastic. Great work everyone.

Miss Manna 🙂

The Yr 4/5 students learnt about the art movement ‘Cubism’ and the famous artist Pablo Picasso. We looked at how Picasso created multi- angled paintings of people and buildings. He was able to paint portraits with the facial features looking in multiple directions, this made the viewer wonder which direction to look.

After learning about Pablo Picasso the students created their own collage ‘Picasso faces’. They used vibrant oil pastels to colour in and blend together, then they cut out each piece to paste together to create an interesting cubist style face.

Well done everyone!!!! Very vibrant and interesting expression on the faces.

Miss Manna 🙂