On Display at MHA

Color Groups  Red, orange & yellow are warm colors. Artists will often use them to portray scenes of warm weather.  Green, blue & violet are cool colors. Artists will often use them to portray cool weather.
The 4th and 5th graders created temperature based landscapes that are currently on display in the elementary wing of the school.

Bryony Petch from the Dixon Gallery and Gardens came to visit our 4th and 5th graders today to discuss the work of Brian Selznick. She read us a few pages from The Boy of A Thousand Faces, about a boy who liked to change his face every day with paper masks. She then tught us how to make 3-D paper masks of our own.  Click on this link to enjoy the show! http://youtu.be/ZrriCIKLFNo

Dixon Day at MHA

Yesterday the second and third graders were visited by Bryony Petch from the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. She taught us about Brian Selsnick and we talked about Dinosaurs and Mosaics. We learned how to make Dinosaur Mosaics of our own. Enjoy the show!

Our Trip to the Brooks Museum

Last week the fourth and fifth graders enjoyed a trip to the Brooks Museum.   We were taken through the galleries, where we focused on several pieces as we learned about the elements of art.  After the tour we went down to the studio to do a project with Miss Jenny.  She gave each of us a secret picture of an abstract painting, and we had to write a description of that picture using the elements of art.  We traded descriptions with our partner and without seeing he pictures, we had to make our own pastel drawing based on the written description.  Here is a short video of our trip.  Enjoy the show!

  

On Display at MHA

 

The Margolin Cave

Art from the Stone Age was known as Paleolithic Art.  In Prehistoric times, people would find shelter in caves and would “decorate” the rock surfaces of these caves with carvings and paintings.  No one knows exactly why these paintings were done,  historians have come up with some Theories about them.  One theory is that the paintings served as some form of magic.  For example, the “hunting” pictures often depicted the animals already pierced with spears.  The hunters believed that if they drew the animals on the wall, then they captured his spirit. If they pierced the animal’s sprit on the wall with a spear, then the animal’s spirit would die and the real animal would put up little resistance when, the caveman went to hunt it.  Of course, we know this is not true.  However, a primitive man going out to hunt would probably have a lot more confidence if he thought the animal wouldn’t put up much of a fight.  Since the paintings were created deep within the caves, away from bad weather and future generations, many of them are still well preserved.  There are also many small carved objects and stone paintings found within these caves.  All though primitive, these renderings of everyday life are full of energy and clearly depict the images that they are trying to portray.  The 6th - 8th grade art students created some cave drawings of their own depicting paleolithic life.  You can visit our Margolin Cave in the hallway just oustside the Junior High wing.