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Art Music Drama: Art
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| Malvern pupils gather in the round room at the Birmingham Museum and Art |
Over forty pupils had the opportunity to extend their art knowledge during a visit to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The morning began with hands on activities in the rooms dedicated to showing how different art is made. Everything from painting, printing, woodcarving, bronze casting to textiles, jewellery and stained glass could be explored. Worksheets helped us look carefully at the art on display and all agreed this was a fascinating and inspirational area.
Next on the agenda was a look at the Pre-Raphaelite collection of paintings and drawings. The children, in their groups, were given the task of trying to find out "what makes a Pre-Rapahaelite painting" as well as discover the names of famous Pre-Raphaelite artists. The children responded with comments such as "fairy tale", "romantic", "jewel like" and" religious". There was mixed opinion about these works.
Swiftly on to the rooms displaying 17th Century Dutch art and some of the children had much fun dressing up in the costumes provided that were similar to the clothes that could be seen in the paintings. These paintings were less colourful and many showed scenes of people in their ordinary, everyday lives. Jeremy wrote, "I liked the Dutch paintings because they had variety and I'm quarter Dutch."
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| Who's lookin at whom? Years 5 & 6 take in Anna Maria Pacheco's work at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
We then spent some time sketching in the room dedicated to the drawings, paintings and painted carved wooden sculptures by the Brazilian artist Anna Maria Pacheco. The wooden sculptures depicted a group of life size people with interesting, slightly haunted expressions on their faces. It was interesting to see the stand off between our party who seemed mesmerised by what they were seeing and the group of carved figures that seemed to be casting suspicious glances and whispering about us. We all enjoyed these.
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| What an illusion! "Superduperspective" by Patrick Hughes |
Beautiful, dramatic landscapes could be seen in the round room before we visited one of the most popular art works on display, "Superduperspective" by Patrick Hughes. This was an amazing 3-D perspective painting that appeared to move every time we moved. What an illusion!
The afternoon was spent viewing a special exhibition "Toulouse Lautrec and the Art Nouveau poster" in the Gas Hall. These beautiful designs gave a fascinating insight into the Parisian life over a hundred years ago and provided an opportunity for the children to look out for any French words that they could recognise and translate. Yet more dressing up in costumes of the day before heading back to school to reflect on a full range of art experiences covering many periods and genres.
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