Last year, we studied Spanish painters at “Conde de Mayalde”
Infant and Primary school in Añover de Tajo (Spain).
This was our experience…
Who is Miró?Miró was a
famous Spanish painter who was born in1893 and
died in 1983, when he was 90
years old.
How did 5-year children discover Miró?
They asked their parents and searched
for information about him together.
The teacher showed different elements about Miró.
The magic begins….
When they painted as Miró
This was our gallery
La célula mitocondria ( BLUE I , the
mitochondrian cell)
THE GOLD OF THE AZURE
We painted ourselves using Miro´s style
Finally, we painted his name with different and
light colours
The 6-year children studied other Spanish
and famous painter called
First of all, we gave some information about “El Greco” to our parents.We chose this original
form… Mum, daddy:I have to search for
information about Greco: this could be
photos, biography…
etc.
Secondly, our classroom turned into a big painting.
This is the result
We also studied lots of museums where El Greco’s
paintings are available worldwide.
We learnt about his life watching some films…
reading some poems
about his different works…
We put the title under each picture
Words
used in the proje
ct
We learnt
the main
painting´s
titles… .
We formed lots of
words…
regarding El
Greco´s project
We played different games
related to this famous painter.
We began to paint
We painted ourselves using
El Greco´s style
We compared the differences between our pictures and El Greco
´s painting style
What is a museum for you?
The last activity of this Project was to
visit the Santa Cruz Museum where
children could see the original
paintings.
It was a wonderful experience
We waited some
minutes before
we went into it.
In the first levels of Primary School, pupils wanted to participate in El Greco´s
project.They painted the most important works by El
Greco with using different forms.
The result was…
Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo)
El caballero de la mano en el pecho (Gentleman with
his hand on his chest)
El soplón (A Boy Blowing on an
Ember to Light a Candle)
La dama del armiño (The Lady
of the Ermine)
San Juan Evangelista(St John the Evangelist)
El entierro del Conde Orgaz (The burial of the
Count of Orgaz)
CREDITS
This project was developed by:
Ideas and realization:
José Manuel Velarde
Photos:Mabel Sánchez
Belén DíazLola Fuentes Ana Arcones
MusicRene Aubri
Allegro Libre ParcoursPassagers Du VentGeorge Friedrich
Handel Water Music. Suite nº1.
Antonio Vivaldi The Four Season “
The Autumn”