INSPIRING TREES - Barrufet school

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Inspiring trees

Picasso, Miró, Dalí and...

Antoni Gaudí

Escola Barrufet: 1st - 2nd-3rd grade

Let's investigate! Famous Spanish painters who have painted trees

Discussion: A discussion starts in the class:

• How many Spanish painters and artists do you know?

Brainstorming: We decided that we know the ones worked in our eTwinning project: Miró and Dalí but also they know Picasso and Antoni Gaudí. We also decided Frida Kahlo is not from Spain. Let's investigate: In teams: Did these famous artists painted trees? Using tablets the teams investigate and they draw different trees inspired in this famous artists.

Miró

Gaudí

Dalí

Picasso

Index

LET'S INVESTIGATE about trees and FAMOUS PAINTERS FROM SPAIN

Picasso

Miró

Gaudí

Dalí

Joan Miró

"When I see a tree I feel that the tree is talking to me. It has eyes. You can talk with it"

Joan Miró

Learning about: Joan Miró

• Joan Miró was a Catalan and Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist.

• Joan Miró liked to paint nature and simple things

• He painted a tree with a big eye and a big ear

"El jardí" (by Joan Miró)

"Natura llaurada" (by Joan Miró)

"La Masia" (by Joan Miró)

Miro's tree paintings through the eyes of children

Miro's tree paintings through the eyes of children

Salvador Dalí

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it... just as a tree's beauty lies in its unique imperfections, so too does the essence of art."

Salvador Dalí

Learning about: Salvador Dalí

• Salvador Dalí was a Catalan and Spanish painter, but he was also sculptor, graphic artist, designer, film-maker, and writer. A genious!

• He loved to create art that looked like dreams (surreal and imaginative paintings)

• His paintings often included strange objects and unusual landscapes (like melting clocks )

("Paisatges de Cadaqués" by Dalí)

("Olive trees" by Dalí)

Learning about: Salvador Dalí

• Dalí incorporated trees into surreal and dreamlike environments ( leafless and desolate trees or trees with exaggerated, elongated branches... adding mystery and intrigue at his work, a surreal atmosphere)

Swans Reflecting Elephants (by Dalí)

The persistence of memory (by Dalí)

Dali's tree paintings through the eyes of children

Dali's tree paintings through the eyes of children

Pablo Picasso

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.""

Pablo Picasso

Learning about Pablo Picasso

• Pablo Picasso was a Catalan and Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer.

• He said "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

• He loved to experiment with shapes, colors, and textures in his artwork.

Our 1st graders did not hesitate to make an improvised tree. As Picasso said: "Every child is an artist"

Learning about Pablo Picasso

• He painted trees in different styles:
• In "Tree" we can see a young Picasso still developing his artistic style with trees.
• In "olive trees" or "Bird on a tree" we can see Cubism style with geometric shapes and multiple perspectives

"Bird on a tree" 1928 (by Picasso)

"Tree" 1899 (by Picasso )

"Olive trees" 1907 (by Picasso)

"Two trees" 1907-1908 (by Picasso)

Picasso's tree paintings see through the eyes of children

Antoni Gaudí

"That tree is my teacher"

Antoni Gaudí

Learning about: Antoni Gaudí

• Antoni Gaudí was a Catalan and Spanish modernist architect. He had a global and innovative architectural style, surpevising collaborators as other architects, sculptors and craftsmen. He worked with ceramic tiles in his sculptures, with iron...

• He observed the nature and found inspiration for his work in the organic shapes and forms he saw in nature

Learning about: Antoni Gaudí

• Gaudi's masterpiece is "the Sagrada Familia", a big cathedral still under construction in the center of Barcelona, Spain. It's the most famous monument in Barcelona.

• Gaudí took inspiration from nature, inside Sagrada Familia he created a magic STONE FOREST playing with the columns in the shape of tree trunks. It's like walking through a forest with a kaleidoscope of colorful lights and shadows...

Sagrada familia: The Stone forest

Gaudí: through the eyes of children

Gaudí: through the eyes of children

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