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Years 5 and 6 - Tuesdays

Freestyle!

Lots of members of our Tuesday Art Club like to make the most out of our freestyle element.  Although there have been many unique and wonderful pieces produced completely independently, we have unfortunately captured very few on camera.  However, we do have these little beauties..

Erwin Wurm

 

We had a lot of fun in Art Club recently looking at the work of sculptor Erwin Wurm, in particular his “One Minute Sculptures”.  As exhibited in galleries across the world, this particular collection encourages the viewer to interact with everyday objects in unusual ways according to Wurm’s hand drawn instructions.  The resulting sculpture is therefore in existence, physically, for a brief time only - perhaps just one minute.  We had such a good time experimenting with this idea in Art Club, our sculptures didn’t hang around for much longer than about 30 seconds before we were on to the next!  Take a look…

Alberto Giacometti

 

This week in Art Club we learned a little bit about Alberto Giacometti and some of his sculptures.  Lots of them are tall, thin figures which are made from metal.  Rather than roll out the blow torches and soldering irons, we decided to use tin foil to make sculptures similar to Giacometti’s - here are some of our results…

 

 

Street Art

 

We’ve also been looking at graffiti and practising putting together our own tags on our very own Art Club wall!  It’s a group work in progress and currently looks like this…

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