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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words at S.J Preston
Preston Elementary School fourth graders finish project re-creating Edvard Munch's famous work.
In a collaborative effort, S.J. Preston Elementary Art Teacher Melissa Sgrulletta and Library Media Specialist Thomasine Mastrantoni merged art, literacy, technology, history and photography into a single lesson for their fourth grade students.
Students were asked to view and analyze the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream. Students were asked to identify and articulate what makes them scream and capture this emotion using digital photography.
The fourth graders then altered their self-image using the computer program Adobe Photoshop to exaggerate the photograph and took a color journey to connect color with emotion. Finally, students made artistic choices about what color and brush stroke to add to the digital photograph. These choices directly connect back to the emotion and reason each student is “screaming.”
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The art work from Preston’s fourth graders will soon be on display in the Superintendent’s Gallery.
This story was contributed by the Harrison Central School District.
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