Years 5+6 have been learning all about the work of Paul Cezanne.
Cezanne was a French painter who is often regarded as the father of modern art influencing many other artists including Picasso. Many of his most recognisable paintings are still-life studies of a group of everyday objects arranged on a table or cloth: they often contained fruit, plates, water jugs, vases and even human skulls!
Cézanne created more than 900 oil paintings and 400 watercolours during his lifetime.
In Class 4, we have been learning how to represent 3D objects onto a piece of paper by completing studies of apples in our sketch books using only three tones – dark, medium, light – with pencil crayons.
After studying and discussing a range of different still-life compositions created by Cezanne, we created our own arrangements and began our own observational studies in pencil.
Finally, we worked on using colour to to show light and dark in our compositions. Here are our paintings so far; our finished pieces will be on display in school very soon!
