An exhibition of “Art in the everyday” in Wanhua District
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Children’s art works in the exhibition.
By Dory Chung
Monga Longshan Culture & Creative B2 worked with Soho Children’s Art Museum in Taipei to hold the exhibition “Art in the everyday”. Visitors could experience magical fun from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm every day except Monday.
The exhibition is meant to bring people together in an interactive environment and thus learn more about art. People can play games and have their pictures taken beside winning art works by children.
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Paintings by students of Longshan Elementary school
A colorful painting of a brick wall stands at the entrance to the exhibition. All 600 pieces of brick paintings were done by primary school students. They reflect the attempts of their creators to draw out traditional styles from their child-like art. People can move the pieces around like jigsaw puzzles and create their own art.
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A student shares what she has learned from art class.
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Winners of an art competition
The Taipei Art Foundation Project has been going on for three years. It promotes having children actually doing artistic creations instead of having them learn art through textbooks.
Last year, this experimental art teaching at the Longshan Elementary School had a group of students without previous exposure to art education learn the basic mixing techniques to create a myriad of colors. They learned how to distinguish between cold and warm contrast, the techniques of smudge, patchwork, and sculpting models. After just one year, the students can now make both 2 and 3 dimensional works of art. When you see their works, you won’t believe they were created by children.