Joan Miro is the perfect artist for a 1st grader. His work is fun, colorful, and exciting. The kids eat it up!
For this project, we first looked at a bunch of Miro's paintings. I have the kids talk about what they see, what they think the artist was trying to show, and we even talked about what surrealism is.
It is really neat to hear what the kids have to say about the paintings. It is the perfect time to bring up how everyone sees something different and that we can like and dislike different aspects of art.
We talk about lines, geometric, and organic shapes; what they are and how they are different from each other. The students were required to have both organic and geometric shapes, and all parts of a flower in their artwork. We used color pencils and outlined with markers.
I love what they came up with!!!
Artwork at the top of the post:
Joan Miro, Carnival of Harlequin, 1924
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