Art

This term the Grade 5 and 6 students have been investigating the work of Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudi. Most known for the church La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Gaudi is also famous for his contribution to the mosaic style known as trencadis. It is a technique that consists of joining together broken pieces of tiles. As Gaudi liked the round shapes of nature, and the square tiles weren’t the right shape, he thought it was easier to break them. 

Inspired by Gaudi’s mosaics, the students have made their own designs to create a mosaic creature. The armature was put together using foam shapes such as cones and balls and held together with toothpicks. White magiclay was quickly placed on their armature and the tiles pressed into it. As the magiclay is a little sticky it held the tiles to the foam shapes until it could dry and harden. Here some students from 5R placing their tiles on their armature:

As they worked around the armature smaller tiles were required to fit the arms, legs and horns etc, broken tiles and shards were perfect for fitting in these smaller areas. These are some of the finished mosaic sculptures: 

Some of these amazing sculptures will be displayed in the library for all the classes to see, but before they went on display or went home the students used their mosaic monsters as subjects for photos. First,they had a quick lesson on taking photographs with different camera angles such as high and low level, and different shots such as close up and extreme wide. Then they went outside and used IPADS to take photos of their creatures. The students took some very creative photos with interesting compositions, shots and angles:

Simon, Dan, Edward 6P