This week we did another art project. This time the idea came from my friend and teammate, Brenda. It was inspired by the book Paul Klee by Sean Connolly (part of the series The Life and Work of...about many different artists.) At one point in his career, Klee used letters and numbers in his artwork and felt that through his art and music, he was in a sense creating a new language. So the students created artwork inspired by Klee. In one painting, it was like a mosaic with letters in each square, and a few of them spelled out words (such as mom) but most were just random strings of letters. So we duplicated this.
I gave each student inch square graph paper. They were to write a letter or number in each square in black pen. Then they could color the squares with crayons. They could spell out real words and many of them did...or just add random letters. Also, I pointed out how Klee often colored a square more than one color.
Here are our art pieces in the style of Klee:
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