Art and Culture

Topic: Painting with big brushes​All the artists we looked at are American.  They all worked in New York and became famous after the Second World War, because their work was so big, new and surprising: Mark Rothko, born in Russia 1903; Franz Kline, born in USA 1910; Ad Reinhardt , 1913, Clyfford Still, 1904. We

Topic: Sketching and DrawingRayyan, Victoria, Thasin, Alisha, Zakira, Junaed, Simrah, Zeshan, Amira We looked at a portrait drawing by Lucian Freud of his son Ali; pen drawings called Desert, City, and Hedge, by Phyllida Barlow; two very quick plant drawings by Ellsworth Kelly, called Water-Lily and Grass; Lifeboat, by Victor Pasmore and Harvesting Wheat in

Topic: Working from our Imagination  Scribe: Simrah We asked each other where our ideas come from: memories, dreams, thoughts, things we see and hear, things we like or find strange…and we looked at:​Paris Through the Window,  and Promenade, by Marc ChagallJoseph’s Dream, and Carlo Crivelli’s Garden, by Paula RegoFootprints, Double Self-Portrait with Bowler Hat, The