Sunday, February 3, 2013

Expressionism


Expressionism Expressions
Grade 4

Students used a glue resist process and chalk pastels to portray a facial expression.

        Student At Work                                               Shock                                                       Sorrow


Expressionism - a style of artwork that communicates and emphasizes the artists feelings or mood.  

Artists commonly show this through the following characteristics:
  1. Exaggerated Colors
  2. Expressive Lines
  3. Distortion


Artists Studied
  
       Franz Marc
       1880 - 1916                                      
Nationality:  German                                                              Yellow Cow, 1911

 Oswaldo Guayasimin
       1919 - 1999
Nationality: Ecuadorian                                                       El Dolor, "The Pain"