Blue Gate Fields Junior School
  • Home
  • Our School
    • Our Aims >
      • No Place For Hate
      • British Values statement
    • Our Staff
    • Our Library
    • Our Governors
    • Location, Contacts and Accessibility
    • Our Vacancies
  • Information
    • Admissions
    • Term Dates
    • Coronavirus Information
    • The School Day
    • Breakfast Club and School Meals
    • After School Provision
    • Uniform
    • Snow and Bad Weather
    • Text Messaging
    • Attendance
    • Behaviour
    • Policies
    • Pupil Premium
    • Sports Funding
    • GDPR
    • Freedom of Information >
      • Guide to information at Blue Gate Fields Junior School
    • Pupil Attainment
    • Public Sector Equality Duty
    • Financial Information
    • Charging and Remissions
    • Compliments
    • Complaints
  • Curriculum
    • Our vision, values and aims and the curriculum
    • The Recovery Curriculum
    • Curriculum Overview
    • Our Curriculum Aims and Intent
    • Our Curriculum Implementation
    • Creative Curriculum >
      • The Arts
      • Art
      • Music
      • Drama
      • Arts Council
    • Teaching and Learning Policy
    • Feedback including Marking
    • English and Literacy
    • Maths and Numeracy
    • Science
    • History
    • Geography
    • Computing and ICT
    • Religious Education
    • PHSE
    • Philosophical Enquiry
    • Art >
      • Art at Home
    • Design and Technology
    • Music
    • Physical Education
    • Modern Foreign Languages
    • Spiritual, Moral, Cultural and Social Education
    • What our pupils say about the curriculum
  • Inclusion
    • Equalities
    • Special Educational needs and Disability (SEND)
    • Provision for the most able or talented pupils
  • Well-being
    • The Team
    • Well-being for Pupils >
      • Time to Talk
      • Individual support
    • Well-being for Parents
    • Well-being for Staff
    • Peer Support
    • Widening Horizons
  • Parents
    • Year 3 Home Learning Blog
    • Welcome to the Junior School!
    • Secondary School Applications
    • Covid-19 information for parents
    • Home Learning Information for parents and carers
    • Online Safety for Parents
    • Advice and support for parents
    • Parent View
    • Parent Survey 2021-2022
    • Letters to Parents and Carers
    • Cookery Club >
      • Recipes
  • Pupils
    • Information for children
    • Non-screen activities to do at home
    • School Council
    • Online Safety for Pupils
    • Pupil Web Links
    • Pupil Surveys
    • Talk4Number
    • Growth Mindset Stories >
      • The Rockin' Good Rollerskaters
      • Sewing Club
      • A Handwriting Story
  • A Learning School
    • Partnerships for Improvement
    • Externally led projects
    • Research and development within school
    • Educational Expertise
  • School Blogs
    • School Blog
    • Anti-bullying and Kindness Blog
    • Year 3 Blog
    • Year 4 Blog
    • Year 5 Blog
    • Year 6 Blog
    • Arts and Culture Blog
    • School Council
    • Library Blog
    • Nurture Group
    • Poetry Blog
    • Physical Education Blog
  • OFSTED
    • OFSTED Reports
    • School Self- Evaluation 2021-2022
    • For Inspection team

Arts council Meeting 9th February

28/2/2022

 
​Topic, chosen by Ayaan: 
How the great artists made their work

This was an interesting choice and first we looked at work by 3 of the most famous artists.
​
We saw drawings of rocks, mountains, storms, invented machines and the human body by the famous Italian Leonardo da Vinci, 2 self-portraits by the Dutch Van Gogh, 3 portraits by the Spanish Pablo Picasso. All those artists seemed to be obsessed.  They worked most of the time and even Van Gogh, who was only 37 when he died, produced over 800 paintings.  The other two had long lives and were very observant and curious and were always trying out new things. 

Then we saw a textile design called Golden Harvest, (made in 1959) by the Caribbean Althea McNish, and  a brush-drawing by the Japanese Toko Shinoda (we could see her standing up, drawing with a long-handled brush  on a big sheet of paper on the floor).

But we started by looking at a photograph of Victor Pasmore working, (because we had seen some paintings by him last time). In the photo he was on the floor looking very small sitting in the middle of his big painting.  He was painting the lines.  It was going to be a big mural.  An artist can work in all sorts of ways: standing up, lying down, sitting in a tree. 
Portrait of Olga, Picasso
Picture
Althea McNish, Golden Harvest textile design
Picture
Picture
Self-portrait with bandaged ear, Van Gogh
Picture
Toko Shinoda, painting standing up
Picture
Althea McNish, in her studio

Comments are closed.

    Archives

    September 2022
    June 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    July 2021
    May 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019

Blue Gate Fields Junior School   -   King David Lane   -   London   -    E1 0EH   -    Tel: 020 7790 3616