Mona Lisa Collaboration

I am very excited about the 7th and 8th grade project: Mona Lisa Collaboration. As the title suggests, this entire project has been a group project between all of my 7th and 8th grade artists. Mona Lisa is one of the most iconic works of art from Italian Renaissance created by artist Leonardo da Vinci (not DiCaprio or the ninja turtle). Before creating any artwork, students used Chromebooks to research a different art -ism: Realism, Fauvism, Pointillism, Impressionism. These -isms are all styles of art in the modern period, and after learning how to create each technique associated with the style, students were able to choose which technique they enjoyed the most in order to recreate one small section of Mona Lisa. The modern art techniques creates such an interesting contrast against the Renaissance subject! The classic artwork was divided into 60 squares, each student receiving one or two squares to draw. I will be assembling the artwork at the end of next week. I am so excited to share this abstract work of art! Below is a sneak peak of some of the tiles.

Fauvism, colored pencil

Realism, pencil

Impressionism, oil pastel

Pointillism, marker 

Realism, pencil

Realism, layering, colored pencil