Please enjoy this snapshot of what grades 6, 7, and 8 have been creating. Also, a special shout-out to our student participants who submitted their artwork for this year’s holiday card.
Congratulations To:
- Amina Farid ’27
- Evie Duchaine ’27
- Sophie Weinstein ’26
- Beya Kelley ’25
- Coraline Mann ’25
- Anna D. ’25
- Caroline Whitfield ’25
Middle School Classroom Art Updates
Sixth Grade:
Greek Etched Vases: When thinking about artifacts of Ancient Greece, one of the first images that comes to mind are those of Ancient Greek vases; reddish-orange vessels and the iconic illustrations that adorn their surfaces. Essential to everyday life in Ancient Greece, vases had both artistic and functional value, bearing visual messages about religion and culture as well as carrying water, oil, and perfumes. Grade six students created and embellished their own designs by etching into the black board to reveal the gold/copper foil underneath.
Seventh Grade:
Pointillism Still Life Paintings: Georges Seurat was a French post-Impressionist painter who developed pointillism, a technique that uses small dots of color to create an image. His most important work, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, took him two years to complete. Students were tasked to create an interesting Fall still life composition. Within this composition they used the painting style of Pointillism as well as optical blending–using two primary colors to create a secondary color––mixing with your eyes. Keeping color in its purest form.
Eighth Grade:
Mini Abstract Canvases: After looking at several different abstract artists, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Rothko, Frankenthaler, Klee, and more–students took inspiration and created their own mini-abstract design. Abstract art uses a 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.
