Van Gogh Inspired Collage

 

        This project is a landscape collage that I created using tissue paper. This project was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night painting. For this project, I first picked out different sizes, shapes, and colors of tissue paper. I laid those pieces on a black piece of construction paper. After that, I took a gel medium and painted that over the whole paper to help the tissue paper stick. This gave it a glossy finish. After that, I used blue construction paper and cut out buildings that looked like a city landscape. Then, I used a silver sharpie marker to create many different lines on the gel medium and on the buildings. These lines with movement represented Van Gogh's style!

 

        An extension activity that you could do with something like this is have each student pick an artist and do a project similar to this one; such as using lines with movement to represent the artist's style. Also, students could share their project they created based on their artist then give a few facts or a short presentation on why they used the specific lines, colors, patterns, etc. that they did, based on their artist.

 

CHAPTERS 20-22 ART HISTORY:

        After reading chapters 20-22 on art history, I think there are alot of great ideas that you could use in your classroom to incorporate art history. One of the ideas that I really liked when I read about it was in chapter 21 when it talked about presentations on an Artist's life. I think these would be fun to do; students could even do them with partners. They would be interesting because then the students could create a piece of artwork, that resembles their artist's style to help explain them to the class. Also, chapter 21 has alot of art history vocabulary words. Students could each take a word; define/explain it and then create artwork based on that word or that represents that word. This gives students the opportunity to learn different words or about artists that they may not have known about before!