Tag: arteducation

  • The Creation of Adam — Drawing as Observation, Patience and Construction

    The Creation of Adam — Drawing as Observation, Patience and Construction

    This extended graphite drawing project marked the culmination of the Grade 7 Visual Arts journey through Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, and Renaissance art. Across the year, students investigated how images communicate belief, authority, symbolism, and human experience through mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, observational studies, printmaking, painting, and historical inquiry. This final project brought many of those…

  • Seeing Rome Through the Eyes of a Realist

    Seeing Rome Through the Eyes of a Realist

    This project challenged students to capture modern Rome through the lens of Realism, asking: If a Realist artist were alive today, how would they depict the city? Drawing from the tradition of 19th-century Realist painters like Courbet, Daumier, and Millet, who rejected idealization in favor of documenting ordinary life, students explored contemporary urban environments with…