An Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt lived in the early 1900's and started his career as a decorator. He is probably most famous for his painting named "The Kiss".1. The first step is to give the students black construction paper, magazines with lots of people in them, scissors and a glue stick. Instruct the students to look for a person in the magazine that has exposed arms. They are to cut out the head and arms as three separate pieces.
2. The body parts will then be arranged on the black paper in the same manner they were in the magazine. Have the students carefully glue these down with a glue stick.
3. The fun part! You'll need some gold paint markers, which are not cheap, but they are SO fun to draw with. Explain again to the students that Klimt was considered a master at both decorating and painting and they are to fill in their person with an amazing, over-the-top piece of clothing and then lots of pattern all around the background until there is no more room. NOTE: The paint markers are not rated safe for young children. Use at your discretion with students that you trust will not stick them in their mouth or give classmates gold manicures.
2. The body parts will then be arranged on the black paper in the same manner they were in the magazine. Have the students carefully glue these down with a glue stick.
3. The fun part! You'll need some gold paint markers, which are not cheap, but they are SO fun to draw with. Explain again to the students that Klimt was considered a master at both decorating and painting and they are to fill in their person with an amazing, over-the-top piece of clothing and then lots of pattern all around the background until there is no more room. NOTE: The paint markers are not rated safe for young children. Use at your discretion with students that you trust will not stick them in their mouth or give classmates gold manicures.
5 comments:
Thanks for this one. I love Klimt and "The Kiss" is one of my favorite pieces. It's even on my coffee cup. This project is a great way to make Klimt accessible for kids, even really young ones. I plan on trying it in my class next week!
Gel markers, metallic colored pencils, and crayola metallic FX crayons alos look great on black paper, (for those of us who've spent thier budgets and personal budgets for supplies :-)
I really like this idea. We will use crayons on black paper.
Paula/Belgium
Or try it with scratch paper!
I think I'd like to try this with my 2nd graders using photos of themselves and maybe the metallic Sharpies rather than the paint pens. I'll let you know how it turns out. It could be a nice "self portrait" for Back-to-School Night.
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