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PREPARATION OF THE WORKSPACE the sheet must be smaller than the media it should be glued with the paper tape making a frame all around the sheet should not be peeled off until the job it is finished and dry GRADATIONS OF INTENSITY The watercolor is transparent, so to obtain gradations of increasing intensity, successive coats are superimposed using the diluted color always in the same way. PURPOSE OF THE EXERCISE : to obtain a gradually more intense and uniform color, overlapping successive coats of color • On the sheet glued to the back of the album, I add a vertical strip of paper tape • I paint a coat of color all over the strip • I let it dry • I spread the same diluted color on the already painted strip, leaving a part with the color of the first draft (at least a couple of centimeters) • I let it dry • I repeat the same procedure several times starting to paint each time lower • I observe how many coats are necessary for the paper to be completely saturated with color (this means that at a certain point I will no longer see the difference even if I try to lay out other passages of color) NOTE: How to tell when the sheet is dry enough to work on it again Since this technique requires the use of a lot of water, it is normal for the sheet (especially if it is not watercolor paper of good thickness) to swell. It is precisely for this reason that before starting to paint we have to glue it to the support with a frame of paper tape all around. When the sheet dries, it returns to spread out. Also, by touching the sheet with your hand, you should feel it no longer wet and cold. Back to Watercolor Go to Dilution

CLIL In this section you will find activities that will be explained and done in class in English. The aim is that of enhancing the use of the English language in practical labs in which you are invited to suspend the use of your mother tongue and to use the English language in all the steps of the work. It is of primary importance that you do your best to use the English language even while chatting with your friends during the activity. Get to know me silhouette T he goal of this activity is to create a self-portrait using sentences, words, and images that all together can describe oneself, obviously in a positive way. MATERIALS - drawing paper - paper sheets to take notes INSTRUMENTS - a hard pencil - color pencils, felt pens or any kind of instrument you like First of all, we need to do some brainstorming in order to collect ideas to describe ourselves from different point of view. You can use the questions listed below, but you can also add other questions Do you have a pet ? If so, what? What is your favorite color ? What is your favorite food ? What is your favorite musician /band? What is your favorite song ? What is your favorite TV Show ? What is your favorite movie ? What is your favorite book ? What do you do for a hobby ? What is your favorite subject in school? Who is your role model ? If you could have any job , what would it be? If you could go anywhere in the world , where would you go? If you had superpowers , what would they be? People like me because ... Prepare a drawing paper and a pencil on your desk bend foreward your body and lay your head on the sheet; trace the outline of your head using your pencil (you can follow the instruction in the video till the creation of the outline: please stop there, as we are going to make something different) now let's take our sentences, lyrics, words and write them down along the outline of the head using a fine-point black marker write them in italics, without spaces, creating a continuous frame now you can write single words in capital letters inside the outline of the head and /or draw some elements connected to the ideas you obtained from your brainstorming such as favorite food, animals, etc. You may color your silhouette however you like and with whatever supplies you have available (Sharpie, crayons, colored pencils, markers, watercolor, pastels, etc.). Please color inside the entire silhouette. Take your time, put in your absolute best effort and color neatly. for the background, you must do something. You cannot just leave it totally blank. You may add color, you can draw some more images that represent you, you can draw outer space or a simple pattern, anything you want! use brilliant colors and TRY YOUR BEST! Here you have some examples of the results done following the original indications of the author of this activity, Mrs. Jessica Hamilton The activity has been adapted in order to suit the objective of a CLIL lesson Now you should have a certain amount of sentences, words, lyrics, colors, images that should be enough to make a nice creative portrait of yourself. 1/1 get to know me silhouette Drawing after Michel Craig - Martin CLIL activity inspired by Miriam Paternoster's blog ArteaScuola Michel Craig-Martin is a contemporary artist born in Dublin, Ireland in 1941, who spent most of his childhood in Washington D.C. Since 1966, he lives and works in London. He is a conceptual artist and works with different media. Here we particularly look at his paintings of ordinary objects, by means of which he wants people to look at these thinks from a different perspective. In the video he speaks about the 'shock of the familiar '- objects that are part of our ordinary life transformed into artistic subjects may lead us to consider them differently. MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN HOMEPAGE In the first part of the CLIL activity we will focus on the vocabulaty Practical activity We are going to create a drowing insired by the artist Michael Craig-Martin using the art supplies we usually use in our art room. We will work on the topics of still-life , representation and composition . Step by step activity : Fix the photocopies to the window pan with some tape, leaving some space between one another. Observe that the objects have different proportions. You can mix together smaller and bigger objecs as you like. Overlap your drawing paper to one object depicted on the photocopies and trace it with a pencil . Choose another object and trace it on your sheet. Pay attention to the position you choose: is all the object visible or is it partially hidden? You can moove from one photocopy to another. You can turn your sheet as you like in order to create your composition. When you have finished to create your composition, sit at your desk and erase unnecessary lines Draw the necessary outlines with a black permanent marker . Colour just some areas of your drawing with felt-tip pens in solid colours in the sryle of Michael Craig-Martin Colour the background with a solid colour.

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Page Title This is a Paragraph. Click on "Edit Text" or double click on the text box to start editing the content and make sure to add any relevant details or information that you want to share with your visitors. Section Title Section Subtitle Altorilievo Scultura a tutto tondo Every website has a story, and your visitors want to hear yours. This space is a great opportunity to give a full background on who you are, what your team does and what your site has to offer. Double click on the text box to start editing your content and make sure to add all the relevant details you want site visitors to know. If you're a business, talk about how you started and share your professional journey. Explain your core values, your commitment to customers and how you stand out from the crowd. Add a photo, gallery or video for even more engagement. L'altorilievo si differenzia dal bassorilievo perché le figure sono più aggettanti rispetto a quelle di un bassorilievo. La tecnica è la stessa, ma si parte da una lastra di materiale più spessa in modo da poter dare maggior tridimensionalità alle figure. Lo sfondo, in questo caso, avrà un livello molto più basso rispetto alle figure stesse La scultura a tutto tondo è la scultura vera e propria: da un blocco di materiale si ricava una figura autoportante (che sta in piedi da sola) e che viene definita su tutti i lati. È fatta per essere ammirata girandoci intorno ed è completamente priva di sfondo Approfondimenti

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The Lascaux cave Google Arts and Culture The Lascaux cave was discovered in 1940 by some boys in the hilly countryside of the commune of Montignac, a quiet town in central-southern France, in a pine and chestnut forest and juniper undergrowth. In 1979 she joined the World Heritage List . The subjects of the paintings Central theme : the regeneration of nature The closure to the public The cave has a large number of paintings dating from 19,000 to 17,000 years ago . The representations are distributed on the rocky walls of different environments. Various species appear such as horses, deer, bison, bears, birds, rhinos . Images have also been identified that reproduce an extinct species of bovine, the Urus. There are around 6000 distinct images in three categories: animals , human figures, and abstract signs . ​ Horses are always represented with thick fur; bulls and cows are depicted in small herds; deer have very broad and branched horns and are almost always represented in groups. Between 1988 and 1989 a scholar (Norbert Aujoulat) observed that the figures of animals follow one another according to a precise rhythm: first the horses, then the aurochs and finally the deer. This sequence of figures would correspond to the spring-summer-autumn cycle . There would therefore be a relationship between the representation of these animals and the cycle of nature and its annual regeneration . The central theme of Lascaux's art is therefore that of the annual regeneration of life. (sources: Paleolithic art, handout by Raffaele C. Demarinis , ADO, Analysis of the work ) This cave was also closed to the public in 1963 . In 1983 a first project was started for the reproduction of the cave paintings which was however interrupted due to lack of funds. Between 2012 2 and 2016, thanks to new technologies and new materials, a faithful replica of 900 square meters was completed ( Lascaux IV ) . ​ TORNA A STORIA DELL'ARTE BACK TO PALEOLITHIC Up

The Altamira cave VIDEO - The cueva animada Virtual visit of the Altamira cave duration 00:07:48 The discovery, towards the end of the nineteenth century, of the Altamira cave in Spain, changed the vision that one had of the prehistoric age and of the abilities of Homo Sapiens. Until that moment, in fact, no rock paintings were known. Museo Nacional and Centro de Investigación de Altamira The discovery Inscription in the World Heritage List The closure to the public and the creation of a copy T he history of Altamira dates back to the archaeological findings of French scientists, presented at the Universal Exposition in Paris, held in 1878. By chance, the exhibition was visited by a Spanish amateur archaeologist, Marcelino Sanz de Soutuole who, returning to his homeland, decided to thoroughly investigate a cave that he had accidentally discovered on the territory of his possessions. It was the 9-year-old daughter Maria who identified the image of a mammouth on the vault of the main room. A closer look made it possible to identify many other animals. The Altamira Cave was included in the World Heritage List in 1985 along with 17 other Paleolithic caves also discovered in the north of Spain. As in the case of Chauvet, the opening of the cave and the large flow of tourists risked heavily compromising the site, so in 2001 a museum was built not far from the main site with a replica of the cave. In 2002 the cave was definitively closed to the public . Other copies of him exist in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid, in the Deutches Museum in Munich and in Japan, Parque España-Shima Spain Village, Altamira, image of the vault with crouching bison from Google Arts and Culture (photo by Pedro Alberto Saura Ramos ) The paintings in the cave belong to a large period of time ranging from 35,000 to 11,000 years ago . Studies conducted on the paintings revealed that the representation of animals, which at first was believed to be linked to an event that had happened, such as a hunting expedition, instead had a propitiatory meaning : that is, it was the expression of a desire and not a description of an event . The representation therefore had to have a magical-religios meaning , that is, it did not have to describe, but favor the success of the hunt . Furthermore, these paintings were found in uncomfortable and almost inaccessible places (= not accessible, difficult to reach). From this it was understood that prehistoric men sought contact with divinities in this way : in particular with mother earth , on which their survival depended. ​ Here Paleolithic art amazes us for the ability of these artists of the past to observe especially the anatomy of the animals represented. We are also struck by the deep knowledge of the necessary materials and of the drafting techniques that are becoming more and more refined. ​ The cave stretches deep into the mountain while the ceiling drops down to just one meter above the ground. In the cave were found remains of terracotta lanterns and torches used to illuminate, even if partially, these rooms . profile (sm) = 1. In a generic sense, the extreme contour line of an object, and the drawing that reproduces it; 2. b. Painting, drawing, photograph that represents the face of a person seen from the side. ​ pigment (sm) = non-soluble coloring powder which, when mixed with aqueous or oily substances, is able to cover a surface. Pablo Picasso , Toro , 1945, scratching. Paris, Picasso Museum. Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. In his artistic research he has often been inspired by primitive art, both prehistoric and that of the African tribes of our time. ANALYSIS OF THE WORK ​ The painting represents a bison seen in profile . the bison is stationary on all fours and turned with its head to the right. The artist traced the outline of the animal with black pigment and painted the interior with red pigment, using the natural color of the stone to highlight the parts of the body. The artist exploited the natural reliefs of the rock to better render the three-dimensional shape of the animal's musculature. Sticks, primitive brushes, fur balls and fingers were used to paint . The pigment was mixed with animal fat to allow the color to adhere to the rock surface. The painting appears very realistic , especially in the rendering of the different details of the legs. In this drawing you can clearly see how Picasso carefully analyzed and studied the cave paintings of Altamira, taking from them the idea of a very simplified body, the accentuated contour lines and highlighting the tail, the horns and the nostrils that are the elements characteristic of the animal. ​ After a visit to the Altamira cave it seems that he said: “After Altamira everything is decadence”. TORNA A STORIA DELL'ARTE BACK TO PALEOLITHIC Up

The Chauvet cave DOCUMENTARY - Cave of Forgotten Dreams France, Canada, USA, Great Britain, Germany 2010 Directed by Werner Herzog Duration: 01:25:23 ​ Werner Herzog, intrigued by an article in the New Yorker, obtained from the French Ministry of Culture permission to film for a few hours a day, a few days in all, inside the cave, which is normally closed to visitors to protect the exceptional climate ... The discovery of the Chauvet cave took place in December 1994 in the south of France. A group of three speleologists noticed that a slight current of air was coming out of a narrow passage. Having opened a passage, they discovered an immense cave on whose walls many painted animals crowded. The dating World Heritage List The paintings discovered are probably the oldest in the world . The dating, carried out with the Carbon 14 technique, attributes to the paintings an age of about 31,000 years BC The cave will take the name of one of the three speleologists. The state of conservation of the paintings is extraordinary, especially due to the fact that a landslide had sealed the entrance 20,000 years earlier. The Chauvet Cave became part of the World Heritage List in 2014 Chauvet's paintings are surprising for the variety of animals represented: four hundred and forty-seven paintings of animals of fourteen different species , including rhinos, cave lions, bears, ibex, mammoths, horses and even an owl. The most amazing aspect, however, is that of representation since these ancient artists used perspective and shading . Below is a gallery of images taken from the Chauvet cave site. We see a bison, a musk ox, a herd of horses, a deer, a butterfly, red dots that look like the dots of a domino, the scratches left by the claws of a bear, a graffiti in which a horse and a mammouth appear , the graffiti of an owl, running lionesses' heads, positive handprints, red dots arranged in space, a bear, two panthers, a lioness head and a mammouth rendered with red pigment applied on a stalactite. The photographs shown were made by several photographers. Since it is not possible for me to individually attribute the authors to the shots, I quote them here: Arnaud Frich , Jean Clottes , Carole Fritz And Gilles Tosello . Let us now focus on this image of the lionesses. ​ We observe how they are represented one in front of the other and superimposed, as if the artist wanted to give us the idea of a herd of animals running . They are all facing in the same direction, but the heads have different inclinations. The superimposition of the figures is the first way in which human beings have tried to make the sense of perspective (the placement of different elements in space). ​ The use of shading to render the volumes of the animals' faces is very evident. In the same way it can be observed how the contour line has variable intensity and thickness , also in this case to accentuate the three-dimensionality of the subject. In 2015 the replica of the Chauvet Cave : built 7 km from the original site. The replica was necessary to preserve the original. It was in fact realized that the paintings were in danger, both because the site was no longer isolated from the external environment, and because the passage of so many visitors was compromising the internal microclimate: the continuous lighting and above all the increase in temperature. caused by people and the humidity produced by the breath, were causing the pigments to fall off and the development of mold on the paintings. Up TORNA A STORIA DELL'ARTE Torna a Preistoria - Le grotte dipinte Up

Central Perspective The central perspective Section Title Building a room in perspective Next Construction of a landscape with a central perspective Next Accidental perspective Next Section Title Every website has a story, and your visitors want to hear yours. This space is a great opportunity to give a full background on who you are, what your team does and what your site has to offer. Double click on the text box to start editing your content and make sure to add all the relevant details you want site visitors to know. If you're a business, talk about how you started and share your professional journey. Explain your core values, your commitment to customers and how you stand out from the crowd. Add a photo, gallery or video for even more engagement.

Construction of a room with a central perspective Perspective is certainly one of the novelties of the Renaissance. In the past man had already tried to convey the depth of space because our eye makes us perceive not only that the farthest objects appear smaller, but also that our point of view influences what we see. Already in Roman times we have examples of empirical perspective (i.e. based on experience) and even later there are artists who try to take this aspect into account in their works. However, it is only in the Renaissance that architects Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti are able to understand and describe the mathematical and geometric rules that allow the three-dimensional space and three-dimensional objects inserted in space to be drawn with confidence. Brunelleschi, in particular, describes the central perspective, while Leon Battista Alberti discovers and also describes the accidental perspective, based on two vanishing points, which allows us to represent an object even if it is not placed right in front of us. Section Title Every website has a story, and your visitors want to hear yours. This space is a great opportunity to give a full background on who you are, what your team does and what your site has to offer. Double click on the text box to start editing your content and make sure to add all the relevant details you want site visitors to know. If you're a business, talk about how you started and share your professional journey. Explain your core values, your commitment to customers and how you stand out from the crowd. Add a photo, gallery or video for even more engagement.

CRETE Heraklion Archaeological Museum Heraklion Archaeologic Museum - 3D materials The Archaeological Museum of Herakleion - guide page 77 - the palace page 83 - clay models of the building page 100 - column models page 104 - swing page 108 - the goddess of snakes page 212 - example of linear writing A page 220 - vases pp. 274-75; 281; 287-288; 290- vessels of marine subject (octopus) pp. 308- 327 - jewels pp. 330-331 - mosaic tiles of the city pp. 338-345 - engraved semiprecious stone seals page 402 - coin with labyrinth (III BC) ​ The civilization that develops on the island of Crete, starting from about 2.600 BC. C., is called MINOICA and takes its name from the mythical king Minos. The Cretans are skilled navigators and give life to a peaceful (their cities are not surrounded by defense walls) and refined civilization. Around 1.200 a. C. the island is conquered by the Mycenaeans, putting an end to this civilization. Building city : city whose extension coincides with that of the king's palace, divided into many rooms and on several levels. The heart of the Cretan cities were the vast and elegant royal palaces where political and religious power and crafts were concentrated. The absence of defensive walls testifies to the peaceful character of the Cretan people. We speak of a city-palace , made up of many buildings. Cretan art is joyful and takes its cue from nature (in particular from the sea) and from the society of the time, as evidenced by the paintings that decorate the halls of the palaces, but also the vase art. ​ The palace of Knossos Knossos is the most important palace in Crete and is the symbol of Cretan civilization. The excavations of the area where the palace stood were conducted by the archaeologist Arthur Evans in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was responsible for the consolidation of the fragile structures with concrete inserts and the recomposition of the paintings with bright colors. Evans' reconstruction has raised numerous criticisms: they are in fact non-reversible interventions, with modern materials, which is very far from today's sensitivity which aims to preserve ancient structures without trying to erase the passage of time and which tries to use the same materials used in ancient times. The palace, built around 1.600 BC. C., developed along a hill facing the sea. It was made up of about 1,300 rooms that branched off from a large central courtyard in which religious rites, ceremonies and performances took place. In addition to the king's residence , there were houses , administrative offices , places of worship , areas for performances , shops and numerous warehouses . The rooms were articulated on several levels and were connected to each other by stairs , corridors and terraces that created a real labyrinth ; loggias and courtyards allowed the lighting of the different environments. In the image we see a glimpse of the throne room. The walls are decorated with paintings representing pairs of griffins facing each other. Griffins are mythical animals with a lion's body and an eagle's head. They are symbols of determination and wisdom, qualities necessary for a king. Knossos, Atrium of the dolphins . ! .700 - 1.400 ca. to. C. Leap of the bull ( taurocatapsia ), fresco from the Palace of Knossos, 1,700-1,400 BC. C. ca, now in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum of Crete ​ One of the most popular activities in Crete is represented in this painting, that is, jumping on the bull: standing in front of the bull, grabbing it by the horns, performing a somersault and landing behind the animal. Here the three moments of evolution are represented; not only the boys, but also the girls practiced this "sport". The two figures at the beginning and at the end of the jump, in fact, are two female characters, who in Cretan art were always painted lighter than the male ones. The painting presents large areas of flat color and without chiaroscuro, but the curved line of the bull's back and that described by the young man's body convey the idea of momentum and movement, just as the compact mass of the beast's body expresses the idea. of threatening aggression ..