TEACHING WORKSHOPS FOR
Kindergarden, primary a secondary grade schools

The teaching workshops at Palazzo Blu, designed by Kinzica Società Cooperativa for the exhibition, are intended to let children of all ages develop an understanding of the various styles that the artists used to express the need for change, protest and escape in the first half of the twentieth century.

Along the exhibition route and during the workshops, the participants will learn – in ways designed for their specific age group – all about a historical period that is now very remote from the young people of today.

Duration: 80 minutes
Includes guided tour and workshop

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Children’s Workshop

Surreal Fairy-Tale

During their visit to the exhibition, the children will interact with the style and content of a number of the works on show, engaging in particular with the paintings of Joan Mirò. Here, under the guidance of the workshop leader, they will be given the freedom to create a story based on the two surrealist works of art.
In the workshop, experimenting with the use of a range of materials, they will reproduce the fairy-tale they have dreamed up in a playful composition.

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Primary school workshop - First cycle

At School with Klee and Kandinsky. A Day at the Bauhaus

During their visit to the exhibition, the children will observe some of the styles developed by the artists of the early twentieth century, discovering in particular the communicative re-evaluation achieved through the deployment of key visual elements, such as the point and the line, by the artists working at the Bauhaus, including Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky.
In the workshop, then, they will follow in the footsteps of the students of the Bauhaus art school to carry out a number of formal exercises on point, line and plane, carefully following the lessons of the two masters, Klee and Kandinsky.

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Primary school workshop - Second cycle

The Deconstructed Tower

Moving through the rooms where they will discover the various artistic styles, the children will be encouraged to concentrate on the technique used by the cubist painters, and in particular on that of Robert Delaunay, the founder of orphic cubism, which combines decomposition with the dynamic use of color.
In the workshop, taking their cue from Delaunay’s Eiffel Tower, they will create on paper an image with the Leaning Tower of Pisa as its main subject.

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Workshops for secondary schools of 1^st and 2^nd grade

Guides for an Hour: Inside the Works of the Avant-Gardes

Learning how to interpret a work of art

The students learn how to approach the world of art by constructing a direct dialogue with the work. Supported by a guide, the youngsters will learn how to read an artwork and, having gone on to become their own critics and guides, will be able to give new form to the works on show.
The class will be sub-divided into small groups, each of which will focus its attention on a given work, conducting research into, and analysis of, the compositional structures of the visual language. At the end, the children themselves will flip the roles, going from consumers to guides, transmitting the information they have acquired to their fellow students.

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1^st grade schools workshop

Let’s Become Cubist Painters

Along the exhibition route, the children will come into contact with the wide-ranging responses that the artists gave to the circumstances of their time. Looking at some of the most unusual styles, they will learn in depth about the cubist technique by observing the works of Braque, Gris e Picasso.
In the workshop, the youngsters will develop their capacity for observation and their manuals skills, creating a still life in the cubist style.

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2^nd grade schools workshop

Max Ernst’s Form of Chaos

Along the exhibition route, the children will get up-close and personal with the stylistic details that mark out the variety of responses that the artists and intellectuals felt the need to produce vis-à-vis a world that was undergoing drastic change. The guide will spend a considerable amount of time on Max Ernst and on his automatic procedure for the creation of the work. In the workshop, the youngsters, fresh from learning about the technique, will create a work using the gestural processes of the German surrealist artist.

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FULL DURATION

Guided Tour and Worshop activities: 1h 30'

RATES

The rate is the same regardless of the age of the students

• Student rate: 10,00 €
  (the charge includes: entry ticket to the museum + introductory guided tour + teaching workshop)
• 2 free tickets for the accompanying teachers
• Prior booking is required

GENERAL CONDITIONS

If you arrive more than 10 minutes late, the session will be run at the discretion of the person responsible, taking account of the remaining time. Should you wish to cancel the booking, please contact the booking center at least a week prior to the scheduled date.