I love the elongated sculptures of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and we recently had some work from the Guggenheim collection visit our tiny town, including this work (see left) by Giacometti ('City Square', bronze, 1948).When I began talking to my grade 4 students about this artist a few of them recognised his 'Walking Man' sculpture from the Guinness Book of World Records. This sculpture recently became the highest selling sculpture of all time, which made the kids even more interested to learn about the artist.
The students created these Giacometti inspired sculptures using wire, cardboard, paper mache and paint. They were very proud of how they turned out.
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When working with 10 year old boys, one must expect the 'Tough Guy Giacometti' and
'Ninja Giacometti'....
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| This one's got some attitude on it : ) |
