Paul Klee

      Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively (...) He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality. (Wikipedia)
 

   
      We will work with basic shapes and colours as Paul Klee did.

1. Draw and cut out a basic shape in different sizes.
2. Paint with tempera both sides of the shape.
3. Glue them and put a string.
4. Decorate the class with all of them.

These are the students' artworks. They look nicer when hunged from the ceiling.

Front and back of one artwork

Tactile Textures.

Create a composition with tactil textures after the adjustable lamp. Each student will draw the lamp from their own point of view in the class.

Technique: Collage

Aranzazu Ortiz

Eva María Ruiz

Lorena

Visual Textures.

Look at the circle with the texture's example that you will reproduce in each object.

Textures and patterns

Exmples of student's textures and patterns

Damián

A black and white Mandala.

Light direction

What happens when we change the light direction on our subject/object.

    This picture that I've found in internet is going to teach us how important light direction is in a photograph or artwork.

Now is your turn to practice what you have just learned!!!

 

Sant Antoni

San Antonio visitando a Pablo el Hermitaño,
 D. Velázquez, 1936-38

    The festival of Sant Antoni Abad (Saint Anthony Abbot) is the most popular and vibrant, which is celebrated between January 16 and 17 in many Majorcan villages.
    The festival starts on 16 January at dusk, when the street bonfires are lit. It´s the Sant Antoni´s Eve, the Patron Saint of domestic animals, and one of the most magical nights in Mallorca when former fertility rituals were held. The ritual remembers all temptations this saint had to overcome in the desert.
    On this night locals eat sobrassada (Mallorcan sausage meat) cooked on embers in the street, as well as other types of sausage meats and traditional local foods; there is also plenty of wine. The demons wander from bonfire to bonfire, performing their special dance. The festival gets under way with traditional folk songs, which remind locals of the saint´s heroic deeds; however, there are also some saucier songs, and it these which are really popular.
    On 17 january there are processions that represent traditional scenes from Mallorcan rural life; in addition to this, pets are blessed and the demons chase the figure of Sant Antoni, with children playing an essential part in the festival.

 

Each village has its own demon:

Algaida

Artà