so it continues....the trip with my 8th grade crew....it was fun overall as we had 37 kids and 6 adults...one of the activities we did i borrowed from my time with 8th grade at overlake...we did some outdoor art....the kids were to use only things found in the area we were working in to create forms of art....earth art...the most famous artist of this media is andy goldsworthy...but i have to say the kids did a great job as well :)
each team combined ideas to come up with a form of art created within nature and from the utilization of nature....the one above was a great use of flower petals and burnt wood...
and how about this creation....don't you love the work of the stones to make two hearts in the stream that went by the hostel we stayed in....
i thought the tic-tac-toe version of sculpture was well done as well...although of course i wondered why the x's won....they didn't really have an answer....
this one was a great use of color by the kids who made it....all from different forms of leaves...i tried to determine if there was a trail of blood at the bottom...and therefore was this a dagger...or could it have been a person...one is never too sure :)
this last one was created mostly by teachers with a bit of help from some kids...i love the spiral....and the use of plants and stone material....this exercise got us pumped up for viewing some of the art from the most famous sculpturer of romania...constantin brancusi....he built four main sculptures for the fallen of WW2 in the area we were visiting....they are spread throughout a park and are incredible...brancusi is a symbol of the romanian spirit to most of the folks who live here...as he made his creations while still under communist rule and he is considered a national hero....
this is one of the four sculptures by brancusi...named the gate of the kiss....there is a lot of romanian symbolism in this gateway....you can see our group of kids thru it... this seems to be the last one i can post at the moment...so i will do a few more from tismana in the next post...
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