This month, Crossroads artwork from all grade levels has been chosen to be showcased at the Howe Library in Hanover, New Hampshire. Ms. Nadeau carefully selected artwork from each class to be displayed for the public.
Please don’t forget to visit anytime in April to see the artwork displayed!
Kindergarten
ABORIGANAL DOT PAINTINGS: Aboriginal peoples have used dots in art and other forms of expression for a very long time. Dots can be seen in symbolic patterns carved on artifacts and ancient rock galleries. They were used in sand paintings and in body painting for ceremonies. Kindergarten students selected an animal as the focal point and carefully created their dot paintings on “tree bark”.
First Grade
HENRI MATISSE INSPIRED SNAILS: The first graders created these mixed-media collage snails inspired by the abstract artwork The Snail by Henri Matisse. It consists of a number of colored shapes arranged in a spiral pattern, as suggested by the title. The Snail is a major example of this final body of work. The piece is in the Tate Modern collection in London.
Second Grade
CAT and BIRD BY PAUL KLEE: Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. After learning about artist Paul Klee, students examined his work, Cat and Bird.
Third Grade
MIXED-MEDIA VIKING SHIPS: Third grade students created mixed-media Viking Longships to integrate with their classroom learning. Here are the wonderful results!
Fourth Grade
MING DYNASTY VASES: The porcelain of the Ming Dynasty of China benefitted, as did other arts, from the economic success of the 15th century CE, in particular, and the consequent surge in demand for quality handcraft production both at home and abroad. The Ming dynasty is rightly famous for its fine ceramics and especially the cobalt blue-and-white porcelain produced in such towns as Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province.
Fifth Grade
MOUNTAIN TERRAINS BY JEN ARYANI: Fifth grade students created these beautiful mountain terrains inspired by artist Jen Aranyi. Nature-loving artist/designer creating vibrant and colorful watercolor art.
Sixth Grade
JAPANESE NOTANS: Notan is a Japanese concept that relates to the play of light and dark. The positive shapes (main objects) in a work of art should balance or complement the negative shapes (the empty space around the main objects).
Seventh Grade
HENRI MATISSE INSPIRED COLLAGES: After taking inspiration from Matisse and his work titled, Beasts of the Sea (French: Les bêtes de la mer) this paper collage on canvas by Henri Matisse from 1950. It is currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. Eventually by 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts. Beasts of the Sea, is an example of Matisse’s final body of works known as the cutouts.
Eighth Grade
ABSTRACT OIL PASTEL DESIGNS: Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Here students created a non-objective design to demonstrate a warm and cool palette that also contained value and gradients throughout.
