artist archive

A gallery of mixed Grade work, pre-Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle and High School.

Archive:

Artist of the month: November

Name:	Glara Grade 10
Profile::	Cityscape painting of Rotterdam Centrum, Acrylic on canvas (50 by 40 cm) This work developed from a class project involving a trip down-town to photograph the urban city center. Some students travelled further to record imagery of the bridges, so dominant across the Mass river. Glara has refined and changed many qualities of her study whilst looking for a successful sence of completion.

Artist of the month: October 2011

Name:	Pedro - Grade 2
Profile::	Pedro and his class looked at a still life display. They were asked to draw and then water color the objects with care, trying to record scale, shape, line, mark, pattern, tone and color with care. Working from observation is one of those skills all artists must achieve to be able to really grow as artist and understand the world better. Pedro did a fine job!

Artist of the month: September 2011

Name:	Ye Lynn - Grade 3
Profile::	Ye Lynn and her classmates were asked to look at the theme of 'Water' for their I.P.C. unit. In art a number of artists have captured the various qualities water can present. Here she discovered Claude Monet's view of his garden pond as a tranquil, gentle image and tried to replicate his style and love of color.

Artist of the month: May 2011

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Savon - Grade 1

Profile::

Savon and the rest of Grade 1 looked at the work of Joan Miro the Catalonian Spanish painter and sculptor. Miro created painted environments that contained creatures generated by loose and seemingly unpredictable drips of color onto the canvas. An addition of an eye here or a symbolic foot or hand there, generated some of the 20th century's most engaging images. Savon created his own Miro 'creature' using the same techniques as the Spanish artist.

Artist of the month: April 2011

Name:	Joseph - MIddle School
Profile::	Joseph and his classmates looked at the 'Book of Kells', an ancient Irish manuscript containing the four Gospels. Generally considered to be the finest surviving Medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, it provides a rich source of inspiration for this illustration project. Nikki van Leijden.

Artist of the month: March 2011

Name:	Sophie - Middle School
Profile::	Sophie and her classmates were asked to experiment with watercolor and try to control it's tonal application. Weak in some parts and strong in others, to enhance their aquatic theme. Wet on wet technique as well as 'washes over dry' were employed. Nikki van Leijden

Artist of the month: February 2011

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Max - Grade 4

Profile::

Max and his classmates looked at the German Surrealist - Max Ernst. Ernst developed and used a series of ’Frottage’ techniques. Frottage, from the french - to rub - produced surface textures that gave an unpredictable qualities to Ernst’s landscapes and Surreal creations. Our own artist Max, from Grade 4, used crayon rubbings to create a mysterious alien landscape, in which he placed an observational drawing of a former students sculpture. David Blackburn

Artist of the month: January 2011

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Kalli - Grade 12

Profile::

Kalli has created some sculptures on her IB Diploma course that are directly linked to the classical Greco-Roman tradition. The 'broken' limbs and realistic forms make reference to the broken sculptures of antiquity that at one time sought to display some element of human perfection. Where Kalli’s work differs from this tradition is with the emotional content displayed. A female torso is encompassed by the color and beauty of nature’s flowers - blindfolded her heart is missing. A hand holding a heart, her heart, is the corresponding piece. Questions are left to answer. Whose heart - whose hand?

Artist of the month: December 2010

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Jose Grade 2

Profile::

José was one of the elementary students tasked with designing a card for the Winter holiday that could appeal to all. He fixed upon the symbol of the evergreen tree. The bringing of an evergreen tree into the home is a tradition whose origins have been obscured by time. Originating in Northern Europe from a pre-Christian era with clear Pagan links, the tree is welcomed into many peoples homes at this time of year. It has taken on many meanings over the centuries, but fundamentally has come to symbolize a time of thought and contemplation about the past and the future. Happy Holidays.

Artist of the month: November 2010

Name:	Nikita
Profile::	Nikita Grade 10 Medium-Acrylic on canvas Cityscape created with use of collaged digital photography, assisting with composition and tonal qualities. Brushstrokes and color developed in an expressive nature, color mixing and depth emphasised. Comment: to be completed, artist not available Nikki van Leijden

Artist of the month: September 2010

Name:	Middle School Group
Profile::	The Middle School class looked at the 'combines' artwork of Robert Rauschenberg and tried to emulate his layering of color, image, texture and found object within their individual pieces. They then joined them together in a final combination. Students: Issy, Chloe, Emma, Marianne, Alex, Byron, John, Maria and Yabin.

Artist of the month: June 2010

Name:	Isabelle
Profile::	Isabelle in 4th Grade created a reductive print by inking a printing image she had made and taking an image from it. She then cut parts away from her original printing image and re-inked in another color. This process was repeated to create similar print images in different colors. This is a 'reductive' printing process. Her theme is a simple portrait.

Artist of the month: May 2010

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John

Profile::

John from 7th Grade Art Exploratory was shown the work of American 'Pop' artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008).  Rauschenberg's work built on the 'layering' and 'reproduction' qualities often found in fellow Pop artists' work and added the 'Abstract Expressionist' random paint spots and splatters of Jackson Pollock with the 'Neo-Dadaist' use of real objects (Stuffed animals, car tires, etc.) found in the work of Duchamp. John was also given a theme of 'Disposability' to consider. He has produced, in response to all the artists he studied, this mixed-media work themed around war and the 'disposability' often associated with humans in the theatre of war. Mr Blackburn Art Department

Artist of the month: April 2010

Name:	Veronica
Profile::	This is part of Veronica's portfolio of I.B. Higher level Visual Art course. The photo-collage of New York is developed from her chosen theme of 'Relationships'. It is manipulated using photo editing software to enhance and edit details within the photography to convey her artistic intentions.

Artist of the month: March 2010

Name:	Issy
Profile::	Issy, Grade 7, Surreal Art theme. Collage (Gouache) Here we have an adventurous expressive art study, 'Beauty with attitude', stiletto,  red roses and a huge eye composed on top of her portrait. The artists that comes to mind are, of course, Dali and also the Anglo/Belgian 'Surrealist' James Ensor. Nikki van Leijden

Artist of the month: February 2010

Name:	Yeon Jae
Profile::	Yeon Jae and her Middle School exploratory art group looked at the work of the 'Russian Constructivists' and set about exploring the use of shape, form and color in their art. She then created a sculpture, of which this is a visual record allowing for the addition of colors, textures and patterns in the background heightening the 'force' and 'power' of the art piece.  Mr Blackburn's Art class

Artist of the month: January 2010

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Jyona

Profile::

Acrylic paint  - 60cm by 50cm Jyona, is following the High school  course in  Art and Design. Here we have  her pen study. Inspiration was found in the works of Conway Maddox, an American artist who can  be found in the Museum of Modern Art  in New york. Jyona has created  a surreal study portraying a lion anxious, scared of the mysterious character running  away in the background. The painted study plays with interior and exterior space to exaggerate the bizarre behaviour of the lion.

Artist of the month: October 2009

Name:	Catalina
Profile::	Catalina and her classmates were looking at Ancient Greek art and culture in their Home Class. In her Specialist Art Class she was asked to study the Mythological Minotaur creature and the artwork made about it. She was then asked to re-imagine the myth as if it were set today. Where might she find the Minotaur? Catalina drew her Minotaur (and friend) ice-skating. David Blackburn (Art Department)

Artist of the month: September 2009

Name:	Elif
Profile::	Elif worked successfully in developing this Black and White photograph,"Class - On a walkabout", following a foundation course in photography learning not only how to develop film and prints, but also making full use of subject placement, lighting and depth of field. From this she went on to develop the theme‘Exploring the Cityscape’. Nikki van Leijden (Art Department)

Artist of the month: August 2009

Name:	Livia
Profile::	Kindergarten - Livia has painted a big parent animal and a baby animal, in this case "Lions", as part of the IPC 'Family' unit. (Mr Blackburn's art class)

Artist of the month: June 2009

Name:	Ryan
Profile::	Ryan from 6th Grade was asked to look at mythology as a creative theme. As part of this he studied the design and use of Gargoyles, 'decorative' water spouts often found on the top of Medieval buildings. Here is Ryan's attempt to create his own mythological Gargoyle from ceramics. (Mr Blackburn's Art class)

Artist of the month: May 2009

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Artem

Profile::

Acrylic on canvas -50 by 60 cm Artem, will graduate in June, he has studied art in 10th grade and two years following the IB visual Arts course Here we can see one of his ‘Kasimir Malevich ‘inspired studies. Malevich launched the Suprematist movement, which brought abstract art to a geometric simplicity more radical than anything previously seen. Artem took time to view Malevich’s work on show here in Rotterdam, discussions regarding this Russian artist with the examiner were all part of his final assessment.

Artist of the month: April 2009

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Marinela

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Here is a collection drawn and painted studies by Marinela. These studies are compiled with the aim to cover the movie poster, project plan, studies focus upon artists who celebrated their skills in paint and poster, Alphonse Mucha and Toulouse Le Trec. Nela, finds inspiration to create imagery from movie viewing and glossy magazines. She will be following the IB visual arts in August, where a monthly project is investigated, planned and created.

Artist of the month: March 2009

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Basia

Profile::

This preparatory drawing is by Basia of Grade 2. It is a modernised version of the "Ambassadors" (1533) by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 - 1543),  the German artist who spent a lot of time in England. He painted this double-portrait trying to show the wealth and cultural quality of these men by placing symbolic objects next to them. Basia and her class were asked to think how the original symbols and qualities could be suggested in the modern world. Basia chooses to show knowledge with a 'laptop' computer. We are still to explore a mysterious symbol shape that Holbein placed into this picture... all will be revealed later.

Artist of the month: February 2009

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Parker

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Grade 5 - Pastels and nature... Here Parker has studied, along with his class, the work of artists who used nature as a source of inspiration. In particular the artist American Georgia O'Keefe. She spent many years looking at and creating from the objects she found around her home and on her travels. As she lived for a time in a desert, this could be an animal skull, but often it was a simple shell or flower. Parker has tried to emulate her work, whilst exploring the use of colored pastels.

Artist of the month: January 2009

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Vegard

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Vegard, a seventh grader,  was asked to look at the work of the 'Dutch masters' such as Vermeer and appreciate that the techniques and equipment they used enabled their "photo realistic" look, many hundreds of years before photography was developed. Then after carefully staging a 'high contrast' image, he set about enlarging and painting a photo realistic image of himself, with a limited tonal range.

Artist of the month: December 2008

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Julian

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Gr.6 Exploratory Medium-Gouache & colour pencil  Size: A2 The class has been focusing on creating a bird and fish design while looking at the work of the Dutchman, M.C Escher. His artistic expression was created from images in his mind, rather than directly from observations, travels to other countries, Italy and Spain had a huge impact on his creativity. Many of Escher's works employed repeated tilling called tessellations; we will adopt this design influence in pencil and clay.

Artist of the month: November 2008

Name:	Pre-Kindergarten Group Work
Profile::	Here we find Pre-Kindergarten students working as a team on their class 'Rainbow Dogs'. Always working with great enthusiasm, it is difficult to pick one student out from the classes, because they all deserve a special praise. Well done for all your efforts and creativity.

Artist of the month: October 2008

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Kalli

Profile::

The High school  photography class started this year  with very strong results from their first  photography walkabout. This study was created by  Kalli , of  a  very simple view captured of a set of steps outside the school playground. The photograph  presents a quality development with full tonal qualities from  light to dark, compositional success. Quote from the photographer "I like it, and it covers all project requirements - job done".

Artist of the month: September 2008

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Niko

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This art work is by Niko, Grade 7. He is new to AISR but has settled into Middle School Art very well. The theme behind our exploratory is "You". What it means to be "You". How people see "You" and what "You" contain. Physically, mentally and emotionally. This art work was made by tracing the body shape and then filling-in the shape with food, colors, patterns and objects that mean something to us. "You" are unique, but "We" share a lot in common. .

Artist of the month: August 2008

Name:	Michael
Profile::	Michael is a High School student from Grade 10. This piece that has been selected as the winner of the artist of the month is a well composed gouache painting created  just before the summer. In class we were looking at artists such as Mucha and Klimt and adopting their Art Nouveau style of decorative and dream like imagery.

Artist of the month: May 2008

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Nathalie

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Nathalie, Grade 4 After looking at the Russian-born, French Painter, Marc Chagall, (1887-1985) we created our own paintings inspired by his art.Chagall travelled to Paris from Russia with the intention of being inspired by Paris, the then 'centre of the art world', at the turn of the 20th century. Instead he was initially homesick and produced a series of paintings inspired by his memories of Russia. These paintings were dreamlike and contained events that could only happen in dreams; like people flying through the air and dancing on roofs. Symbols and objects from Russian folk tales, of great personal meaning to Chagall, were also placed into the scenes. With all these elements in mind, Nathalie thought back to her memories of Russia - her last place of residence and created her artwork.

Artist of the month: April 2008

Name:	Louisa
Profile::	Medium:   Watercolour and pastel crayon Louisa created this study as part of her IB Exhibition, this April. Watercolour was applied with pastels used to emphasis tonal qualities .The art work shows a collection of volleyball players,seniors, at a coach gathering.