Art+Show

Art Show - 2011 ROOM 2 - AUCKLAND CITY - PAUL KLEE

We began our art project by looking at the artist Paul Klee. We looked at some of his work and reproduced them in our own ways. We then started to look at photographs of the Harbour Bridge, Auckland City and the Sky Tower and talked about how we could create these images in the style of Paul Klee.

We then decided to connect out art with our home city of Auckland. We talked about what was special about Auckland and decided that the Sky Tower and the Harbour Bridge were important structures.

OUR ARTIST - PAUL KLEE **Paul Klee** was born in Switzerland in 1879. He died in 1940 at the age of 61. He started drawing with chalk when he was 7 years old when his Grandmother gave him a box of chalk as a present. In 1898, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. In 1910, he had his first solo art exhibition in Bern, Switzerland, which then traveled to three other Swiss cities. In 1913, Paul Klee started to use blocks of colour in his art. It was from this time that he then began to experiment and develop his artist style of primitivism.

**//__Primitive Art__ looks like art that is done by a child. Usually the picture is painted very simply, and the subjects are "flat", or two-dimensional.//**

OUR FINAL ARTWORKS

Picture 1 We drew the __Harbour Bridge __. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We then coloured in our drawings using oil pastels and chalk pastels.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Picture 2 <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We drew the __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Auckland City skyline __ using a black wax crayon. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We then painted the sky using blue dye.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Picture 3 <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We drew the <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 23px;">__Sky Tower__<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We then coloured in our drawings using oil pastels and chalk pastels.