IMPRESSIONISM

"Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct"

Claude Monet

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. It can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. Its influence spread throughout Europe and eventually the United States. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression,(Impression Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to use this term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.

In turning away from the fine finish and detail to which most artist of their day aspired, the Impressionists aimed to capture the momentary, sensory effect of a scene, the impression objects made on the eye in a quick instant. To achieve this effect, many impressionist artist moved from the studio to the streets and countryside, painting en plein air.

TRIANGULATED STRUCTURES

"DESIGN AND BUILD A STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORT YOUR OWN WEIGHT FROM A MATERIAL LIKE PAPER, IF IT IS RECYCLED, BETTER"

CHROMATIC CIRCLE

Before beginning to paint by using colors, students from SIES Humanes in Cubas have been experimeting with the chormatic circle. A color circle, based on magenta, yellow and cyan, is traditional in the field of art. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colors in 1666. Since then, scientists and artists have studied and designed numerous variations of this concept. A chromatic circle is a visual representation of colors arranged according to their chromatic relationship.

Some of the students have painted a 36 color wheel and the rest have tried only with 12 colors. In order to paint a chromatic circle you have to begin by positioning primary hues (cyan, yellow and magenta) equidistant from one another, then create a bridge between primary colors using secondary (orange, green and violet) and tertiary colors. In this way you  get a 12 color circle. If you would like to obtain a 36 color circle, you have to mix the obtained colors with white and black and you have it!!!

GOTHIC STAINED GLASSES

In the 12th century, as Gothic cathedrals began popping up all across Europe, those in charge of decorating these fabulous structures were faced with a new challenge: Given the grand scale and great importance of these bildings, how should they be decorated? Gothic artists responded to this challenge in a variety of ways. On the outside, Gothic sculptors decked their cathedrals with an ever-growing array of decorative sculptures. On the inside, Gothic glaziers took advantage of advances in Gothic engineering to build soaring walls of stained glass, flooding the interior with light.

These stained glass windows were the multimedia stories of their day. Since very few people could read at the time, stained glass windows offered illiterate Christians a glimpse into the tales of the Bible. Fitting pieces of glass together in lead frames, Gothic glaziers wrote the stories of the Bible, not in word, but in light. 

ROMAN MOSAICS

Roman mosaics were made during the Roman period, throughout the Roman Empire. Mosaics were used in a variety of private and public buildings, often incorporating social, entertaining, mythological or personal scenes within wider geometric patterns. Mosaics were traditionally made with bits of tile or glass, but we are going to make our mosaic with pieces of paper. The only rule is to have fun. This activity, increases our ability to develop our sense about beautification and sublimity as well as our patience, ability to concentrate, psychomotricity and promotes team work.

HOW TO MAKE A PAPER MOSAIC

Materials:

- A cardboard for the base
- Cardboard, shiny wrapping paper, newspaper, magazines...
- Scissors
- Glue

Steps:

1. Lightly draw a picture on a piece of paper but do not shade it or put a lot of details in it. The objective is simply to create an outline for the image you will be creating.

2. Get some colored paper. You can use cardboard, shiny wrapping paper or you can look for some magazines with brightly colored photos.

3. Cut or shred the paper into small pieces. You can make regular pieces, like squares or triangles, or let the shapes be irregular for a different effect.

4. Glue your pieces of paper over the sketch you just made. Leave a small gap between each piece for a tiled effect, or place them close together or overlapping for a different look.