Pintores españoles para comenius. AUTOR José Manuel Velarde

Last year, we studied Spanish painters at “Conde de Mayalde”

Infant and Primary school in Añover de Tajo (Spain).

This was our experience…

Discovering Miró

Who is Miró?Miró was a

famous Spanish painter who was born in1893 and

died in 1983, when he was 90

years old.

How did 5-year children discover Miró?

They asked their parents and searched

for information about him together.

The teacher showed different elements about Miró.

The magic begins….

When they painted as Miró

This was our gallery

The dancer

La célula mitocondria ( BLUE I , the

mitochondrian cell)

THE GOLD OF THE AZURE

The rooster

We painted ourselves using Miro´s style

Finally, we painted his name with different and

light colours

The 6-year children studied other Spanish

and famous painter called

First of all, we gave some information about “El Greco” to our parents.We chose this original

form… Mum, daddy:I have to search for

information about Greco: this could be

photos, biography…

etc.

Secondly, our classroom turned into a big painting.

This is the result

We also studied lots of museums where El Greco’s

paintings are available worldwide.

We learnt about his life watching some films…

reading some poems

about his different works…

We put the title under each picture

Words

used in the proje

ct

We learnt

the main

painting´s

titles… .

We formed lots of

words…

regarding El

Greco´s project

We played different games

related to this famous painter.

We began to paint

We painted ourselves using

El Greco´s style

We compared the differences between our pictures and El Greco

´s painting style

What is a museum for you?

The last activity of this Project was to

visit the Santa Cruz Museum where

children could see the original

paintings.

It was a wonderful experience

We waited some

minutes before

we went into it.

In the first levels of Primary School, pupils wanted to participate in El Greco´s

project.They painted the most important works by El

Greco with using different forms.

The result was…

Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo)

El caballero de la mano en el pecho (Gentleman with

his hand on his chest)

El soplón (A Boy Blowing on an

Ember to Light a Candle)

La dama del armiño (The Lady

of the Ermine)

San Juan Evangelista(St John the Evangelist)

El entierro del Conde Orgaz (The burial of the

Count of Orgaz)

T H E

E N D

CREDITS

This project was developed by:

Ideas and realization:

José Manuel Velarde

Photos:Mabel Sánchez

Belén DíazLola Fuentes Ana Arcones

MusicRene Aubri

Allegro Libre ParcoursPassagers Du VentGeorge Friedrich

Handel Water Music. Suite nº1.

Antonio Vivaldi The Four Season “

The Autumn”