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A gallery of mixed Grade work, pre-Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle and High School.
Archive:
Artist of the month: June 2010
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Isabelle |
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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.
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Artist of the month: May 2010
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John |
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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
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Artist of the month: April 2010
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Veronica |
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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.
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Artist of the month: March 2010
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Issy |
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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
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Artist of the month: February 2010
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Yeon Jae |
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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
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Artist of the month: January 2010
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Jyona |
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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.
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Artist of the month: October 2009
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Catalina |
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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)
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Artist of the month: September 2009
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Elif |
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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)
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Artist of the month: August 2009
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Livia |
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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)
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Artist of the month: June 2009
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Ryan |
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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)
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Artist of the month: May 2009
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Artem |
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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.
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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.
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Artist of the month: March 2009
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Basia |
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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Artist of the month: November 2008
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Pre-Kindergarten Group Work |
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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.
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Artist of the month: October 2008
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Kalli |
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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.
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Artist of the month: August 2008
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Michael |
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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.
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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.
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Artist of the month: April 2008
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Louisa |
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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.
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