Spring into Art

Our class is studying the art of Leonid Afremov, he was born in 1955 in Belarus (found between Russia and Poland).  He works mainly with a palette knife and oils; he paints landscapes, city scenes, seascapes, flowers and portraits. Afremov was influenced by the work of March Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Salvatore Dali, Armedeo Modigliani and the 19^th century French impressionists. 

A link to his artwork can be found here and here. 

Our students have been studying different ways to create art, the different genres of art (Landscape, portrait, still life and genre-painting) and the process an artist goes through to make art.

Our focus book this month, Molly Meets Mona and Friends by Denise Bennett Minnely, was about a young girl who goes to an art museum and interacts with the famous art she sees. She sees work by Claude Monet, Alexander Calder, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky and Lois Maliou Jones. Artists that work with paint, watercolor, stone, wire and dots.

We are now looking into symmetry and how it plays into art. Students have taken small group trips to the museum to work in the art studio.


See all of our photos here!