Thursday, December 12, 2013

It's Edvard Munch's Birthday!

And just who is he?  Everyone probably recognizes this painting, but remembering the name of the artist is a bit more difficult.  VP students recently made their own versions of Edvard (spelled correctly!) Munch's most famous pastel painting: The Scream.  We defined parody and then looked at some of the more well-known parodies of this painting.  They especially liked the Homer Simpson one (naturally) and also the Home Alone movie poster.  Munch, born in 1863 on December 12th, was a prolific Norwegian artist who is mainly remembered for the several versions of this painting.  The 1893 version sold at auction in 2012 for 119.9 million and was the highest value recorded for an artwork sold at auction to that date.   That price was surpassed this year by a Francis Bacon painting, but the price was still way beyond what we can imagine.

Students were asked to create a parody of The Scream.  As you can see, they were very good at coming up with situations where a scream might be appropriate.  Other instructions were to come up with both a creative background and foreground, to use a variety of lines and repetition of lines, as Munch did in his paintings, and to think about color scheme. 

 
 


 
 


 
 
 

Sunday, December 1, 2013

BUSY HANDS AT WORK!

There's been more delay than I would like to see in posting since my laptop suddenly got very ill.  Happily it's back on track (thanks to techie elves) and I can get back to sharing Vulture Peak art with you. 

Students were busy happily creating ornaments for the PTA trees just before the Thanksgiving break and you might enjoy seeing some of their hands at work.  We enjoy supporting PTA which does so much for our students.