Grecian Urns and Optical Illusions in Art.

The 6th graders read Ode to a Grecian Urn by John Keats and wrote an ode to something they love in language arts. Then they learned about the shapes and uses of Grecian urns in art.  Next they were asked to designed a Grecian urn to represent their ode.  We made them out of paper only because we don't have the right clay facilities to make them 3-D. I think they got some really nice results using paper and only two colors.

Last week we looked at the work of Op artist Victor Vasarely, the "grandfather" of the Op art movement. The 6th graders started to draw their own op art compositions using lines and circles. Many of them pushed the project further to try a more complicated design. 

Adding color and shading will really give these movement and make them look 3-dimensional.