Recycled Art

Fifth Grade students studied perspective to complete the background for their recycled art.

Recycled art

Fifth graders discussed the work of a variety of artists  who work with the same theme- using recycled materials in their art. Linda Evola-Smidt melts down guns in order to use the metal to create angels of hope, Michelle reader recycled household trash in sculptures of people, artist team Tim Noble and Sue Weber illuminate trash to create realistic images out of the shadows on the wall, and Didier Triglia uses crushed soda cans to create creative faces.
After looking at and discussing these artists we decided to make some recycled art of our own.  Students crushed their own aluminum can and used mixed media to create their own face.  For further inspiration we looked at examples of portraits from Cubism.

 Stay tuned because we will be adding more to these creations in the weeks to come!