EUROPEAN ART AND CULTURE, SOURCE AND INSPIRATION FOR EXTRA VALUE IN EARLY EDUCATION

1. EUROPEAN ART AND CULTURE, SOURCE AND INSPIRATION FOR EXTRA VALUE IN EARLY EDUCATION 2005/2006

2. The European partners CEIP DUNAS DE DONADA MATALASCANAS PIKPA OF PIRAEUS MIHAILINIO ATHENES GREECE SPAIN S.G. CU CLASELE I-VIII N°51 BUCAREST GRANIDITA NR LUCEAFARUL GALATZ ROMANIA ROMANIA

3. PODSTAWOWA SZKOLA INTEGRACYJNA KOSZALIN WALDHOFSCHULE EINE SCHULE FUR ALLE TEMPLIN GERMANY POLAND KINDERGARDEN "CHILD'S FRIEND" SOFIA SAN ANTON EARLY SCHOOL ZEBBIEGH MALTA BULGARIA

4. HALLOW CE PRIMARY SCHOOL HALLOW SEHIT OGRETMEN MEHMET ALI DURAK ILKOGRETIM ANKARA UNITED KINGDOM ECOLE MATERNELLE MARCEL PAGNOL TINQUEUX TURKEY FRANCE

6. First term 2005/2006Portraits , silhouettes, and our european heritage

7. The artists we chose to study this year are not all born in France but they all have strong connexions with the French artistic currents of the 20th century. When discovering their biography, we realised that most of them had spend some time in France and got under each other’s influence so that it is sometimes difficult to identify them as French or Foreign artists,as if they had become Europeans before their time…. The selections have been made depending on the artistic objectives we ment to achieve or if the Artist’s work is connected with a special event in France this year (exhibition)

8. Method and materials With the teacher, the children discovered various paintings from ModiglianiThey described what they saw, what they liked and whyThey mentioned the shapes and colours used by the artist They noticed some similarities in the various portraits Then they tried to represent their own view of the portrait , a little bit like the artist!!! They used tempera and brushes

10. Another way of dicovering our heritage through arts is to work with the events of the European calendar.When it is Halloween, we tell tales about witches and make some drawings Another style of portraits…

11. Traditional tales: Goldy Lock made of cut coloured paper and gold inked pencils

12. The elder ones ( five years old) went to discover the forest surrounding our town for three days in a nature center, where they could sleep ans study the life of the animals .They coloured these foxes portraits with chalks using specific colours

13. We explained to the children that the owl is the symbol of the city of Athens, first place of our European meeting

14. We showed them various representations of owls in Athens and in Greece

15. Trees • Exploiting various techniques • Discovering some Artists’ works • Klimt • Klein • Van Gogh • Observing the countryside

16. KLIMT, exposed in the «  Grand Palais » of Paris this automn and winter He has been called the preeminent exponent of ART NOUVEAU. Klimt began (1883) as an artist-decorator. In 1886-92, Klimt executed mural decorations for staircases at the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Klimt was a cofounder and the first president of the Vienna Secession, a group of modernist architects and artists who organized their own exhibition society and gave rise to the SECESSION MOVEMENT, or the Viennese version of Art Nouveau.

17. We used tempera and big flat brushes, and the colours of autumn; Before, we had been in the forest to observe trees and mainly birches

18. KLIMT, « The tree of life »

19. Other graphic designs to help the children with the structures of these trees.

20. Oil Pastels

21. Gold and silver tempera

22. After the Artist Yves KLEIN, who worked with sponges Yves Klein (28 April1928 - 6 June1962) was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European neo-Dadaism Many of his early paintings were monochrome and in a variety of colours. By the late 1950s, Klein's monochrome works were almost exclusively in a deep blue hue which he eventually patented as International Klein Blue

23. Stuck sand and blue inks that run down

24. Volumes after Y.Klein Paper stuck with sellotape and painted with acrylic

25. Trees with little squares of coloured paper

26. By observing the countryside around the school and in the forest

27. Photocopied Plasticine

29. By observing Van Gogh’s technique Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a Dutch painter, classified as a Post-impressionist, and is generally considered one of the greatest painters in the history of European art. As the pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism, Van Gogh has had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially in the early part of the century. His energetic approach to the painted surface follows a lineage to the Abstract Expressionism

31. Our First project meeting in Athens November 2005 With the elder children ,we wish to work on the mixing of cultures, inspired by greek mythology and the gargoyles from Reims Cathedral

37. Following the calendar, Some Christmas activities

38. Illustration of a poem by Jacques Prévert: “dans la nuit de l’hiver” In the night of winter

39. After Christmas, we used various techniques to describe the universe of queens and kings, we also did some puppets for the « Elmer and Walter in the kingdom of Queens and Kings »   puppet show

41. We went to see a show at the « Cirque Educatif » of Reims which is almost unique in France We saw clowns, and an elephant.

42. Wealsodevelop artistic work from books connected with live  events such as the circus show

44. Cold and warm colours

45. After Paul Klee Connecting abstrac art with the reality of Elmer Klee was born in Switzerland, In 1914, he visited Tunisia with August Macke and Louis Moilliet and was impressed by the quality of the light there, Klee worked with many different types of media – oil paint, watercolor, ink, and more. They often have a fragile child-like quality to them, and are usually on a small scale. They frequently allude to poetry, music and dreams and sometimes include words or musical notation.

47. Elmer being transformed!

48. Another technique with Stencils and blue inks

49. Elephants with the younger ones. The shapes have been prepared with grey paper, the children painted the backgrounds with inks and rollers and put stickers on the stools