Kids: Modern and contemporary

Note:

When French artist Henri Matisse was too sick to be able to paint or sculpt, he began cutting coloured paper with scissors into shapes that he pasted and collaged together.

Imagine Matisse cutting the shapes. Role-play the action of his hands.

Matisse’s ‘cut-outs’ were printed to create a book called Jazz.

Find this print of a circus horse. Which colour stands out the most?

Look at all of the stencil prints. Which one do you like the best? Draw your favourite one.

At home use scissors to cut coloured paper into shapes and collage them together to make your own colourful images.

Note:

Here is a river scene.

Can you see where the water is?

Describe the colours in the water. Are they what you expect an artist to use? Why has Cézanne used them?

Cézanne liked to paint using brush marks you can see called taches. His taches are like building blocks forming the shapes and colours.

Detect what size paintbrush he used.

Spot the people in this scene. How many are there? What are they doing? Make up a poem about one of the people starting each line with the letters of ‘river’.

At home use paints and different size paintbrushes to create a landscape scene using your own taches of paint to build up the shapes.