Traditional African Masks

    Traditional African masks are one of the elements of great African art that have most evidently influenced Europe and Western art in general; in the 20th century, artistic movements such as cubism, fauvism and expressionism have often taken inspiration from vast and diverse heritage of African masks. Influences of this heritage can also be found in other traditions such as South- and Central American masked Carnival parades.(Wikipedia)

Painting Head of a Woman, by Picasso (on the left).Fang mask (on the right)

  Activities:

  1. Online search information about African Masks.

• The function of an Afrikan Mask.
• The materials and techniques.
• The use of pattern and symmetry.
• The sahape and different styles.

Handmakery

  2. Create your own personal mask.  Once that you have made a research on traditional african masks, its time you create your own personal mask. The activity will be done with collage technique. 

      Material:

      - Cardboard, paper plates, etc.

      - Glue 

      - Pair of Scissors

      - Paint (tempera, crayons, etc.)

      - Paintbrush

    -Any material that you have at home for recycling use (newspapers, magazines, cord, etc.)

     Interesting links in internet:

        · Afrikan Mask Lessons by Artfaktory
        · Free African Mask Clip Art
        · Handmakery: Masks in the making

My students works of art

Gonzalo Moreno, Marta Bordoyr, Adam Martínez, Azul Aguila and Alba García

Flip book

There is always someone that creates art from our daily reality. The super heroes in time of COVID-19

Flip book created by Howard Lee

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

   Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527 – 11 July 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.

 

    These works form a distinct category from his other productions. He was a conventional court painter of portraits for three Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna and Prague, also producing religious subjects and, among other things, a series of coloured drawings of exotic animals in the imperial menagerie. He specialized in grotesque symbolical compositions of fruits, animals, landscapes, or various inanimate objects arranged into human forms." (Wikipedia)

Now it is your turn to create a portrait.