Children in Year 5 of Primary Education made 3D landscapes in the style of Salnave Philippe Auguste. He was born in Saint-Marc, Haiti in 1908 and died in the 1990s. A self-educated lawyer, he did not begin to paint until he was fifty years old in 1958. In 1960 he joined the Centre d’Art and created in his art a personal universe where animals from Africa and human beings lived together in a fantastic countryside, representing a version of Haiti’s ecological “paradise lost.”
The artist employs vivid colors and makes striking use of flat surface textures.
They learned about animals and landscapes, patterns and the techniques artists use to show depth (background, middle ground, foreground, relative size and overlap).
When they finished they recorded their voices describing their landscapes and they uploaded their artworks and recordings to an interactive poster on Padlet.
Enjoy this virtual exhibition!
