Our students at Irain Eskola Publikoa in Lesaka (Navarre, Spain) have celebrated eTwinning Day 2018 by recreating two artworks; one painted by Gustavo de Maeztu, and the other one by Ito Jakuchu. They have done this work with the help of the ICTs teacher, and their two English teachers. This year's eTwinning Day has been celebrated on the 9th of May, and the theme has been cultural heritage. Since our project is on the same topic, we thought we could do something special and share it with you. All activities explained below have been done in just one 50 minute lesson!

"Evening Party", by Gustavo de Maeztu

Our Year 5 students (10-11 years old) have cut out the figures shown in the painting, coloured them, and painted a background similar to the one in the painting, as well as a foreground. In their recreation of the artwork the figures have become alive and danced to the sound of jazz music.

This is the original painting by Gustavo de Maeztu, which we have taken from http://www.museogustavodemaeztu.com/eu/portfolio-item/evening-party/

And here is the video of our students' recreation of the artwork:

Our Year 5 students have also produced a text with information about Gustavo de Maeztu and his artwork "Evening Party", which we reproduce here:

Gustavo de Maeztu

He was born in Vitoria on the 30th of August of 1887. On the 2nd of September he was baptized in the San Miguel Arcángel church. Many people went.

His family moved from Vitoria to Bilbao, where the mother decided to start teaching.

He studied painting in Bizkaia and in Paris, where he met Picasso.

In 1947, Gustavo de Maeztu died in Estella (Navarre).

Most of his artworks are in the Gustavo de Maeztu Museum in Estella and in Arts Museums of Vitoria and Bilbao.

 

The "Evening Party"

Gustavo de Maeztu painted the artwork titled “Evening Party”, which shows the interior of a English casino. He did the painting between 1919 and 1923, when he lived in London. He painted many paintings and one was the “Evening Party”.The size of the painting is 144.5 x 109.5 cm.

Tiger by Ito Jakuchu

One of our Year 6 students (11-12 year-olds) has recreated the artwork titled "Tiger", by the Japanese painter Ito Jakuchu, as you can see below:

At Besançon (France), we celebrated Etwinning day on the 9th of May. Each pupils of our school created his own European flag : they were very happy to wave it and also very happy to bring it back home:)