Today Room 15 visited Te Tuhi Art Gallery.
We headed straight to the Art Room to learn about the colour wheel. We learnt about the primary colours and how to mix the secondary colours - green, orange and purple - using the 3 primary colours. We also got to mix 2 tertiary colours including a lime green.
Part of our learning on this trip was finding out how colour can be used symbolically in art; how it can get us thinking about things that have the same colour. We started to think of similes like - yellow like a lemon; yellow like the stars in the night sky; yellow like treasure; yellow like expensive gold.
Here are some pictures of Room 15 making their colour wheels.
When we walked around the gallery we became part of an art installation by an artist called Yona Lee.
Yona Lee wanted us to think about the types of places that we pass through but don't stay like airport waiting rooms, shops, or trains and buses. We found out these types of places are called transient places. As we walked through the art installation all the types of things we see in transient places were all mixed up, like train handles with shower curtains, shopping trolleys with a bed, and coat hooks with mannequins with clothes. Some things were up high and some things were down low. We counted 4 showers in total outside and the water was cold!
It was hard to tell which transit area we were in with all the things all mixed up together.
When we start our mural we will be thinking how we can use colour symbolically.
We headed straight to the Art Room to learn about the colour wheel. We learnt about the primary colours and how to mix the secondary colours - green, orange and purple - using the 3 primary colours. We also got to mix 2 tertiary colours including a lime green.
Part of our learning on this trip was finding out how colour can be used symbolically in art; how it can get us thinking about things that have the same colour. We started to think of similes like - yellow like a lemon; yellow like the stars in the night sky; yellow like treasure; yellow like expensive gold.
Here are some pictures of Room 15 making their colour wheels.
When we walked around the gallery we became part of an art installation by an artist called Yona Lee.
Yona Lee wanted us to think about the types of places that we pass through but don't stay like airport waiting rooms, shops, or trains and buses. We found out these types of places are called transient places. As we walked through the art installation all the types of things we see in transient places were all mixed up, like train handles with shower curtains, shopping trolleys with a bed, and coat hooks with mannequins with clothes. Some things were up high and some things were down low. We counted 4 showers in total outside and the water was cold!
It was hard to tell which transit area we were in with all the things all mixed up together.
When we start our mural we will be thinking how we can use colour symbolically.
