stART ~ Snail Trail

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This week we enjoyed reading Snail Trail: In Search of a Modern Masterpiece, by Jo Saxton.  This is a very simple children’s book that is written in rhyme  shows a variety of modern masterpieces.  Emily, Juliette and I followed a cute little snail through the book on a hunt for a Modern Masterpiece that is based on him.  As we turned the  pages we saw a different pieces of art work, until finally at the end there is Matisse’s  The Snail.  Emily enjoyed looking at different pictures and I liked that I was able to tell her about each one.  Although there are no titles or descriptions on each page, at the end of the book their are photo credits which give the artist and name of each piece.  I thought this was a fun way to introduce Modern Art to Emily and Juliette and a great opportunity to have her work on some of her own art that was inspired by Matisse.  The last page explains how Matisse used cut or torn paper to create the collage and shows a picture of him in his wheelchair working.  I asked Emily if she would like to create a collage of her own just like Matisse did.  She was all ready to do a project and got right to work.

The last time we talked about Matisse I showed Emily some of his artwork on the internet and then she made pictures  that looked very similar (you can see her project here).  She did a great job, but this time I wanted it to be her own idea so she was able to do anything she wanted.  Armed with a lot of pieces of scrap paper and scissors she went to work.  

Emily’s Finished Matisse Inspired Collage

Of course Juliette saw paper and glue and Emily working on a project and she wanted to try it too.  So here is Juliette’s Matisse Inspired Collage.

First she added a lot of glue,

Next, I helped her tear some pieces of construction paper to put on the glue.

Of course she needed more glue!

    Juliette’s Finished Matisse Inspired Collage