Jean Metzinger |
Jean Metzinger delved into a variety of styles including but not limited to cubism, divisionist and fauve styles keeping in kind with the likes of Picasso and Braque. These pieces are an opportunity, for children to explore the likes of "pixels" and how small strokes make up a whole. Also from a scientific perspective how our mind is able to find familiar meaning in images such as the ones on this page and how we can fill in the gaps and understand and image even if it is not complete, in "correct" colours or with concrete definition.
this particular selection of images provides both landscape and portrait examples of Jean Metzinger's fauvist work. to further aid the children in understanding get them to step away from the work and look at it for a distance and see what is more of a focus from that perspective than from a closer perspective. engage the children with open ended questions favoured by Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) exploring what they can see, what catches their eyes first and what about the arrangement of the smaller strokes makes them believe that what they are looking at is the item or feature they name.