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To create « vegetable shapes » cut out from the observation of vegetable from the garden.
OBJECTIVES
To develop the sense of observation
To uses one’s senses (sight, touch) in a reasoned manner
To enrich one’s technical repertory
SKILLS
Using an appropriate vocabulary
Creating a stencil plate
Symbolising a two-dimension shape
EQUIPMENT
vegetables (brought by the children)
scissors
bristol board paper (A3 size)
REFERENCES
Gouache collage cut outs by Matisse
Paintings by Patrick Lipski.
Observe the vegetables laid out side by side. Find a classification according to their shapes.
Justify the classification : use the appropriate vocabulary (round, swollen, long…)
With eyes closed, explore the textures, the tactile qualities of the vegetable.
Translate the textures into drawings.
FOLLOW-ON-ACTIVITIES
Present a reproduction of the gouache collage cut outs by Henri Matisse.
Observe that the painter cuts out the vegetal shapes which he composes in his collages, in colour itself.
Create a stencil plate : cut out with no preliminary drawing shapes of vegetables from the paper..
Work on other « shape-colour » relations from the works by Patrick Lipski.
ASSESSMENT
It will check the pupils ability to
Make a list of and carry out criteria for the representation of vegetables.
Identify Henri Matisse’s artistic process, to recognize it in other works from the same period.
TRANSPOSITION
These activities may be transposed for any age
Françoise Jon, Nathalie Redon. Les Violettes,Primary school, Mareil-Marly Yvelines, FR.