RECYCLE ART

April 24, 2014

RECYCLE ART

Students inquired into different artists' who create art using waste material. They looked at the works of different artists such as Nekchand, Tom Deninger, David Edgar, Sumer Erek, Stuart Hoggarth, Jane Perkins and many more to understand the different waste materials and processes they used to create Art.

Here are some of the samples of their researches on different artists who work discarded material

JANE PERKINS - creates portraits using found material

MICHELLE READER - creates sculptures using wastes

SUMER EREK - creates structures with newspaper

WIM DELVOYE - creates art using metallic waste and tyers

our findings

Students watched video clips, flash cards and images to understand the works of these artists betters.

TOM DENINEGER - work inspired monet's paintings

TOM DENINEGER - Marilyn's portra

TOM DENINEGER - Lips

Buddhist temple made of beer bottle

Junkees inquired into the need and the importance of recycling as an artist. They identified different kinds of waste which we create in our daily such a soda cans, plastic bottles, batteries, plastic bags, biscuits packets, cereal boxes, chips packets and many more but a kind of waste they saw around them a lot was paper. So, Junkees researched on different ways of recycling paper such as Papier Mache.

PAPIER MACHE

Papier Mache is French for ‘chewed paper’. It is a mixture consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes with textiles, bound with glue, starch, or wallpaper paste.

Junkees went on to try the techniques themselves and created bowls, pen stands trays, dustbins etc using the technique.

sticking small bits of paper on a bowl as a mold

good amount of glue and lots of layer of paper bits

and our bowl is ready

now we start painting our bowls

lets make patterns!

Art junkees tried creating art using other kind of wastes as well, for which they went to the junk Market bought and collected all sorts of waste.

VISIT TO THE JUNK MARKET

heap of plastic bottles

compressed plastic bottles

segregation of plastic bottles according to their colour

other plastic material - such as toys, containers

picking up some plastic containers

Segregation of plastic according to their colours

Back to the art room

Washing the junk

more washing and scrubbing

Getting ready to turn into art

MAGIC TIME!

Trash turns into art...

Grade 5 decided to create mosaic with a twist, instead of using broken pieces of tiles the used soda cans. Students divided themselves in groups and gave themselves different tasks such as segregating the soda cans according to their colours, cutting them into small pieces, making a drawing for the mosaic.