Tuesday afternoon was spent at Cookham Dean CofE School with Mr Edmonds' Year 3 class. This was the first session of an art project based around the theme of WWI. The class had been working hard and had already learnt lots of information about WWI and how it started.
As a group we talked about how we remember what happened in WWI. What type of things do we get our information from and how is the war commemorated? We looked at the use of art to remember and commemorate WWI. Some of the things we talked about were war memorials, statues, war paintings, poetry, videos, television and films.
We then learnt about Paul Nash, who was a famous painter who became an official war artist during WWI. After learning about his life, how he became an artist and his role in WWI, in groups we looked at some of his paintings.
The paintings we looked at were:
"The Menin Road"
"Spring in the Trenches"
"The Mule Track"
"Ypres Salient at Night"
"We are making a new world"
Each group were then given time to do some 'free' drawing where they wrote on the piece of paper anything that came into their mind, inspired by Paul Nash's paintings.
Next week Mr Edmonds class will be visiting Maidenhead Heritage Centre to find out more about WWI and learn about the Home Front.
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