This week in art we focused on learning about our artist of the month, Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. The students learned about his interesting life and saw pictures of some of his artwork! In art they are focusing on two of his most famous paintings, Sunflowers and Starry Night. Kinders started working on a ripped sunflowers art! Their cutting and following directions skills are really improving!! 1st grade made ginormous sunflowers! They are so bright and cheery! 2nd grade worked on folded paper sunflowers in a vase! 3rd graders started their sunflower chalk pastel art and loved how messy it was! 4th graders are using construction paper crayons, crayons and oil pastels to create a more realistic sunflowers in a vase! 5th graders started their Starry Night background with a handmade sunflower on top! 6th grade's focus in on Starry Night! I gave them freedom to use any art supplies to make their own piece that looks like Starry Night! They loved the having the freedom to create and really push themselves to make something they had never done before! All of the students really loved learning about Van Gogh and are having a blast in art class!
