Year 7 CERAMICS “Containing the Modernists”
All Year 7 Visual Arts students during Terms 3 have been creating ceramic pots and studying Modern Artists and the Movement these artists belonged to, e.g. Picasso and Cubism, Monet and Impressionism.
After students researched their specific artist, they created a historical presentation which they shared with their class.
They then borrowed elements of their specific artist’s work as inspiration for their own designs, which were applied to their pots. Other students chose to change the shape of their pot, to represent the images shown in the works, e.g. Monet’s Japanese Bridge in Giverny, France or the skirt of a dancer in Degas’s ballerina paintings.
All the ceramic pots were hand built using coil, slab and pinch pot method and then decorated using coloured underglazes and a clear glaze. Some of the well-known artists included Pollock, Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, Schmidt-Rottluff, Gaudi and Matisse
We can’t show you all the works but we do hope you enjoy viewing this selection.
Mrs Genelle Griffin
Visual Arts Coordinator