Lower School News - Artist Study on Jackson Pollock
In the LS1 and LS2 classrooms, art, music, and learning a second language are as important as learning math and the English language.
As a part of our first continent study of North America, the students in both classes are receiving lessons about Jackson Pollock's art and technique. They are learning that Jackson Pollock was an American painter, famous for his style of "action painting." This style involved Pollock dripping and splashing paint on a large canvas, making movements and gestures with the brush-strokes. His paintings look careless and unplanned, but they were not. Pollock took great care over where the paint would fall and which colors he used. The students are learning that Pollock's painting are abstract, which means that they don't represent anything that we can see, but his paintings tell us a bit about the artist's energy and emotions.
The students have been creating their own pieces inspired by Pollock's style of art using a marble dipped in paint. They are enjoying this new lesson!
As a part of our first continent study of North America, the students in both classes are receiving lessons about Jackson Pollock's art and technique. They are learning that Jackson Pollock was an American painter, famous for his style of "action painting." This style involved Pollock dripping and splashing paint on a large canvas, making movements and gestures with the brush-strokes. His paintings look careless and unplanned, but they were not. Pollock took great care over where the paint would fall and which colors he used. The students are learning that Pollock's painting are abstract, which means that they don't represent anything that we can see, but his paintings tell us a bit about the artist's energy and emotions.
The students have been creating their own pieces inspired by Pollock's style of art using a marble dipped in paint. They are enjoying this new lesson!
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