The Grade 2 Learning Luminaries: Art styles, art presentations and art experts

The students had a wonderful and very busy week inquiring into visual art.

Art style research presentations

They did an excellent job of researching an art style and presenting their findings to the class. Romanticism. Fauvism. Op Art. Photorealism. The students learned about all sorts of art movements, and the conversation afterwards involved looking at differences and similarities between the movements.

The Art of Poetry

During our English lessons, we have been learning about poetry, particularly different poem styles. The students put on their poet hats and wrote beautiful haikus this week. Haikus are a short poem style originating from Japan. The students wanted to add a watercolour painting to complement their haiku, so that is what they did. Parents will be able to view the students' poetry and art at the SLC.

Learning from visual art experts

The students were treated to two professional artists, who happen to be DSKI parents, sharing their knowledge and expertise with them this week. Mr Carl Cornish shared with the students how to do traditional 2D flipbook animation. The students enjoyed seeing how simple it can be to create animation (moving pictures) with very limited tools.

We were also fortunate to have Mr Aymeric Kevin present to the students about the work that he does as an art director and what inspires him to create his personal art. The students were inspired to see that Mr Aymeric started with a passion as a young child, and he put a lot of effort into honing his skills, and even as a professional artist today, he is still learning.