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 Painting and drawing students will attempt to mimic the skills of famous cubist artists such as Pablo Picasso for a project in which various musical instruments are the centerpieces of their creations.Art teacher Cindy Howell brought in several instruments, all part of the Howell family collection, for the activity, which also aligns with Music in Our Schools Month. An upright bass, a banjo ukulele, a lap dulcimer and a hammer dulcimer, as well as a tambourine and an accoridon were among the instruments available for students to investigate.On Day One of the project, students took pictures of the instruments from different angles. The 200 or so images, Howell said, will act as a frame of reference for the students as they begin to first mentally fragment the instruments, then rearrange them with the goal of presenting multiple vantage points of the objects in a single piece of art. The cubism movement began in the early 1900s as a way to "capture the essence" of a subject, said Howell, who added that she anticipates the project to take about three weeks for students to complete. |
