Pedro Almodóvar Art School. Ciudad Real
Our school is more than 100 years old. Her name pay tribute to the famous film director Pedro Almodóvar that was born in a Ciudad Real province village (Calzada de Calatrava) that is placed 50 km far away Ciudad Real.
The Art School offers three different academic levels:
- Secondary school level specialized in arts (Bachillerato in Arts). Our students are between 16 and 19 years old.
- Vocational training in Design in three specialities: "Silk screen printing", "Desktop publishing" and "Interior design". Our students are at least 16 years old.
- University degree in Graphic desing. Our students are at least 19 years old.
The appropiate level to join to the project is our Secondary school level. Students have subjects as Painting techniques, Sculpture techniques, Drawing or Painting applied to different supports.
The average profile of these students is vocational type and come from different places in our environment and usually do not belong to aspecific social context. The main aim of our students is to be prepared to study Vocational desing or Fine arts degree.
Involved subjects
In this project we have had the support of following subjects; "Foreing language: English", Universal Literature, Artistic Drawing, Painting Techniques Workshop, Sculpture Techniques Workshop and Artistic Photography. In each subject, students have been working in different activities about the issue "Shakespeare reimagined", adapting it to the specific curricula of each one. This is the reason because we aren't following the general index of activities planned at the beginning of "Shakespeare reimagined" project. Teachers involved planned other activities that they considered more appropiated in their subject development.
Activities
Foreing language: English
Students read two Shakespeare plays; "Much ado about nothing" and "Twelfth night". These books were an adaptation for their English level. They done several activities related to this books.
Painting Techniques workshop.
The activity consists in making a work of painting with acrylic painting technique whose theme is the portrayal of the characters of Shakespeare, these portraits are interpreted in the movement of the artistic avant-garde painting of the twentieth century that each student choose ( cubism, fauvism, expressionism, surrealism, futurism, pop art, etc…)
Sculpture techniques workshop.
It was decided, on a first time, to delimit in Macbeth play the exploratory area of this activity, focusing on the witches’ prophecies. Later It was thought that it was considered proper to determine the creative field in one of the mentioned prophecies; the one of the Birnam Wood. On this way, It was decided to interpret the well known castle assault by using tree branches as basic sculptural material, common for every students.
Artistic Photography.
In Artistic Photography images has been done based on literary images imagined by students. They have chosen various works of Shakespeare and with full of technical freedom they have translated fragments to images. Before performing each photograph each student made a story board to raise the composition and lighting. The images were digitally processed to recreate the literary atmosphere.
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Artistic Drawing.
Drawing spaces from two Shakespeare’s plays. Twelfth night - Much ado about nothing With a previous knowledge of perspective drawing rules, students have to choose a familiar space from their daily life, where would develop a scene from the Shakespeare plays “Much ado about nothing” and “Twelfth night”, previously read in the English language subject. They can take several photos of the place in order to rebuild a new drawing with a different point of view following perspective rules. Once the sketch has been done they can copy it in a new paper and apply colour with a free technique following harmony colour criteria.