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Parents and community members were transported through time at Barnwell Primary School’s (BPS) end-of-year art show, Art Through the Ages.
Students spent all year learning about how those before them created art and how each form of art led to the next. Montessori students to fifth graders all took part in showcasing their artistic talent on Friday, April 21.
They began their studies in the ancient world learning about Egyptian hieroglyphics, the mystery of Easter Island, Stongehenge, and woolly mammoths. Inspired by the natural art of the time period between 30,000 B.C. to 30 B.C., students took to the drawing board.
Guided by art teacher Alyson Collins, the students used various materials and mediums to showcase each era. Collins explained students worked on these projects all year to see their art hung on the walls.
This is the first year BPS students have looked specifically at the scope of art throughout history. Last year students studied art around the world.
The Ancient Greek and Roman art of the Classical World was shown through goblets, busts wearing olive leaf crowns, Spartan shields, and a famous landmark, the Pantheon.
The Middle Ages were represented by byzantine, gothic, and medieval inspired art. BPS students created what they thought the world looked like between 476 A.D. to 1450.
As art switched to paper or canvas from dirt and stone, students studied artists like Berthe Morisot, Edward Degas, and Claude Monet to showcase Impressionism, an art movement showing nature through small brush strokes and dabs of light.
To learn the Realism art style of the Romantic Period, students studied Leonardo da Vinci, and Van Gogh was studied during the Post Impressionism area full of colorful reactions.
The art of Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, George Rodrigue, and Wayne Thiebaud were recreated to better understand Pop, Kinetic, and Optical art. Students created their version of Thiebaud’s Gumball Machine, Warhol’s Campbell Soup Can, and Rodrigue’s Blue Dog.
Other art eras explored by students were Fauvism and the work of artist Henri Matisse, as well as Cubism with artist Pablo Picasso.
The dream-like art of the Expressionism era recreated the artwork of Frida Khalo and Salvador Dali between 1900 to 1950.
Looking into today’s contemporary art, students studied living artists from 1950 to today such as
Romero Britto, Kimmy Cantrell, and Faith Ringgold.
