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Class 5, 2013-2015

Class 5b, school year 2012/2013

  • Picture to Hannah Höchs oil painting "plants"
  • collage "The mechanical garden"

Material: black and white Copies of screws, nuts, pipes and machine parts, animal photos from the Internet, A0

The image review of Hannah Höch’s oil painting "plants" from 1928 is the starting point of our lesson.

At first glance an impenetrable thicket of pipes, machine parts and metal plates (Could this be a junkyard?), The students discover when looking closely at flowers and plant stems, calyxes with stamens, button flowers and much more.

There is not a green splash of color in this metal garden. The only living being is a tiny caterpillar. How does she feel, what will she eat??

The students quickly grasp the possible meaning of the picture because it is very topical:

The danger of the destruction of nature by man and the admonition: Nature is unique and can not be replaced by anything.

The task of the students is to take up this problem and to design their own mechanical garden.

The metallic meadow

One day a small blue tit flew hungry in a special garden. She thought of a branch hung appetizing berries. But when she tried to pick the berries, they were cold and bitter. The little blue tit looked around and was startled, everything was made of screws and metal, cold and dark and inedible. At the sight, she fluffed up, staring sadly and confused at the darkest flower.

by Friederike and Milena

Distorted types

Class 5c, 2014

Material: glossy magazines (Gala), adhesive scissors, DIN A3-A1

I’m reluctant to repeat thematically, but the topic "Distorted types" is one of my recurring favorites.

The ideal of beauty, body cult, fitness cult- the body is today measured by medial images, which one has in common: He should be beautiful, slim, fit and youthful. Of course, our students have these ideals in mind.

In this lesson we used exactly the media that spread this, the glossy magazines. We "attack the ideals", where we cut them;) and put them together to new, more interesting types!

Example: practical introduction of the topic

First, the class receives cut body parts, which they should assemble into a human figure in a puzzle-like manner (see above, practical introduction). There are bodies of different sizes, heads, mouths, legs of different lengths, etc. At the beginning, the pupils usually put proportionally appropriate body parts together. Then they are asked to exchange parts. Now the students have to deviate from their ideals, they are creating increasingly crazier types. In the following individual work this is difficult for some students. It must be pointed out again and again that it is not about making beautiful figures, but interesting types!

To the technique:

In order to create as realistic a figure as possible, the pupils have to cut very precisely and create good transitions between the body parts!

Additional task for fast or topic variation: machine and human, human and animal or, see below, all together!

Doodle art instead of frustration

Students receive a 10x10cm sheet of drawing paper. In each corner a point is set with the pencil and a small distance. The points are connected freehand and the newly created square is divided into several areas. The individual areas are now filled with different graphic patterns. Each student designs four pictures, which are combined to form a graphic (DIN A3).

Class 5c, 6a and 6b, school year 2013/2014

Photo carton, soft pencil, fineliner

The students love this form of drawing, because the drawing area is small and the effect is great. You can creatively invent your own patterns, or get inspiration in sample books (see below). The patterns shown there often look very complicated, but are explained step by step and are surprisingly easy to trace.

The art scribble promotes creativity, concentration and relaxation. In the classroom it gets very quiet! At the same time, seeing is trained by carefully studying new complex patterns and expanding the repertoire of graphic patterns.

The search term Zentangle now contains numerous pages with a wealth of ideas on the Internet.

Manege free – A circus art project

The hospital room of our school should be embellished.

After a survey in several classes, the children for the hospital room want colorful pictures, pictures on which a lot to discover, distract one, pictures with animals and people, pictures that cheer up, make positive mood, with which you can do something beautiful and exhilarating connects! The theme of the circus was obvious!

In the 5th class, we first deal with Marc Chagall, his life, his pictures and his imagery.

The circus has always been a symbol of life for Chagall. Clowns, acrobats and musicians are surrounded by circus animals in his fantastic circus paintings. But also animals from his Russian childhood, such as the rooster, to which he felt connected throughout his life because of a childhood fantasy and the musical goat that broke out of his stable every day, ran down the street, whenever, from the roof of the Neighbors the violin sounded! On almost every circus painting we discover a bunch of flowers, sometimes the fish in his hands, sometimes the tightrope dancer. An indication of Chagall’s great love and Mrs. Bella, who put fresh flowers into his studio every day.

All these symbols are familiar to the students through stories that I have taken from the wonderful novel biography of Barbara Krause: Marc Chagall-the Colors of Paradise Lost (Herder).

The colorful luminous images take us into the wonder world of the circus, there are so many details to see and the happy and lively pictures inspire us to own designs, which are captured in a sketch.

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