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Happiness<br />
Brenda Jimenez<br />
Grade: 3<br />
School:<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Teacher:<br />
Torn-paper collage<br />
PS 245, Brooklyn<br />
Lauren Donner<br />
STUDENT: I felt so inspired<br />
to make something I<br />
never did before, when<br />
I saw the way William<br />
Kentridge made his paper<br />
collage people. It was so<br />
interesting. I love making<br />
artwork because of all of<br />
the new things that come<br />
from my creative ideas.<br />
The collage is about a<br />
little girl who is holding a<br />
ball and feeling happy.<br />
TEACHER: Students studied<br />
the collage work of<br />
William Kentridge and<br />
watched a video of the artist working<br />
with hundreds of small torn pieces<br />
of paper to create various animals.<br />
The students created figurative torn<br />
paper collages that demonstrated<br />
movement. As students worked with<br />
torn paper, they were encouraged to<br />
move the pieces around and explore<br />
how the shapes change when overlaid<br />
and rearranged. Brenda’s work was<br />
one of total discovery. As she worked<br />
she had that “Eureka!” moment when<br />
the small torn piece of paper was no<br />
longer a torn shape but a profile. She<br />
then added other shapes and created<br />
a girl playing with a ball.<br />
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