Abstract painting

JOSE LUIS ZUMETA (19/04/1939-)

The painter that I have chose is Jose Luis Zumeta. He is a Basque painter and her style is abstract. I like abstract painting because although the painter focus her/his ideas there you can imagine lot of things, you enter in a fiction word. Moreover, they are colourful and attractive, so those characteristic are essential for my in a painting. 

 Bearing in mind that I think that this kind of paintings are nice to work with children. The objective is not to find out the paintings meaning, if they do it brilliant but this kind of painting give children the opportunity to improve different skills, cognitive, critical thinking, work with colors, comparing shapes…..

            The painting I have chosen is the next one :

 

 As you can see there are lot of different colors and shapes. More or less you can see a house there with his furniture, the roof without the walls, kitchen tools, animals, windows…

You can start asking children what they see, asking close and wide questions and depending the answer they give you go thought that topic. It will be nice if they recognize a house or a farm there because it gives the opportunity to compare, speak about how it is each pupils house and why not, to create a house with their hands. 

Also you can use some web pages that are especial to create music, so they can create music referring their house movement. If their house is  not crowd and it is calm the music should not be so speedy and vice versa. 

There is more than one websites: 

•  http://www.screencast-o-matic.com
•   www.tony-b.org
• http://www.artrage.com
• www.voicethread.com
• www.inredibox.com
•  Flixel (IPad), fotodanz (android)
• Color splash
•  Stop motion

On the other hand, I paint the puppet that I did not finish in the previous class. As you can see is an elephant. You could said that because of the color is an strange one, but Why?. You have to use the imagination and more when we speak about the smaller. There is a luck o imagination in education, just because the elephant are grey they have to be grey. 

Here is the puppet that I have created:

 

        

It would be nice if children could create them puppets. Making their own puppet is easy and beneficial for them, due to the fact that it is an attractive and fun craft activity.  Moreover, they use their imagination while they are playing with the puppets. For that, to give the adequate instructions is essential, they can do it if we give them the essential material and the steps they have to follow. Here are some simple and fun puppets:

http://www.pinterest.com/blancabm/txontxongiloak-bb/

   

Taking into account the importance of the puppets, I would like to underlain that in the Basque Country we call them ``Txontxongiloak´´ and they are use to transmit stories. In the next link you can see a story about `` The three wishes ´´. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgijtPHlavo

It would be a fun activity the creation of some puppets with children and them starting from that point create a story and tell to the babies or to the parents.  It would be a part of the literature project for example. Children love stories, books, fiction world... so they can think about something relate with the puppets and the literature, mix them and be part of a project in the school. 

 To end with , the other day we went to Liege. Here are some different photos of the modern Lieges train station: