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 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 🙂

The Year 4 & 4/5 students have been learning about the Russian Artist ‘Wassily Kandinsky’. He had an ability to see different colours when listening to music. Most of his compositions were created whilst listening to various music (jazz, classical…)

The students experimented with blending oil pastels together and using analogous colours (2 or 3 colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel) to make sure them blend nicely together. They also had to create an interesting composition that lead the eye around the page.

WOW!!!! They have done an amazing effort at creating their artwork.

Well done!!

Miss Manna

To begin the year off I read the story books ‘Ish’ and ‘The Dot’ by Peter Reynolds to the class. I then discussed with the class that sometimes you need to just let go and think outside the square. I told them about an old TV show called Mr Squiggle and how he turned some lines into something amazing.

So this activity was to get them to do just that. Turn the lines into something interesting and different.

Some great ideas generated by the students.

Well done!!!!

Miss Manna