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Picasso’s Blue Period

Primary 1-3 have been learning about Picasso in art this term.

Picasso was a Spanish artist and is one of the most famous artists in the world. He had a phase in his painting where he made lots of blue paintings. This was called his Blue Period.

We looked at some of his paintings and thought about the colours he used, how they made us feel and how the people in the paintings felt.

We then looked at some of his other paintings out with his blue period and thought how the bright colours made us feel. We compared two of the paintings and discussed colours that we could use to make a happy portrait and what colours we could use to make a sad prtrait.

Half of the class wanted to draw a happy portrait of themselves and the other half wanted to paint a sad portrait of themselves taking inspiration from Picasso’s Blue Period.

P4-7 art

 Primary 4-7 have been learning about Vincent Van Gough and impressionism in Art.

Van Gough was born in the Netherlands in 1853 but sadly died at the age of 37 in 1890. He is what we call a Post-Impressionist painter.

Impressionism is a French movement, developed from an association at the end of the 19th century. The paintings made by the impressionists are generally small, with visible paintbrush strokes.

We had a go at an impressionist painting in the manner of Vincent Van Gough. We took two of his paintings as inspiration: Starry Night and Sunflowers.