Relationship
Every individual thing affects and is affected by other things.
In Grade 7, we studied colour theory and how it informed divisionist painting. In our most recent ‘cubed painting,’ we looked at the relationship between coloured dashes in Paul Signac’s ‘The Port of Saint-Tropez.’ Dicing up the image allowed us to look closer and recreate the composition of coloured patches that interact optically and create a luminous aesthetic typical of Neo-Impressionist art.
#ThrowbackThursday
Breaking up an an image into small pieces, or cubes, has been one way I have been able to get my kids to not just look but to see into an image. The exercises have varied in focus, but with each one I have encouraged my students to work with their ‘neighbours’ in the piece, to connect their lines and shapes when scaling up from a visual reference and to use the same or similar colours if they can find these in their corresponding sections in the original piece.
Vincent Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Crows (1890) Cubed • by last year’s Grade 10s
Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) Cubed • by last year’s Grade 10s & 11s
Nell Melcher’s Asian Still Life Cubed • by last year’s Grade 11 and 12s
Henri Matisse’s The Dessert: Harmony in Red (1908) Cubed • by last year’s Grade 10s
Pablo Picasso’s Mandolin and Guitar (1924) Cubed and Mixed • by last year’s Grade 6s and 7s