GERMAINE RICHIER (1902-1959) was a French artist with an impressive power of work. She worked at Bourdelle’s atelier where she met Giacometti. She developed her own style of bronze silhouettes. Faithful to the figuration, she reformulates the shapes of the figures and the pedestal, integrating it into the work.
In 1935, she travels to Pompeii and is shocked by petrified beings. In those years, a new aesthetic emerged in her work with her fantastic bronze creatures that mix animal, human and plant forms. A disturbing bestiary that is due more to the context of war and postwar than surrealism. In the 1950s, Germaine Richier continued with the theme of hybrid beings and played with color and matter.
The artist shares the conviction expressed by Rodin and Bourdelle that “sculpture is the art of the interior.”
It is interesting to note that Germaine also produced drawings and engravings inhabited with hybrid beings, a set of autonomous and unknown work compared to her sculptures.
Inspired by the sculptures of Germaine Richier we will work on the creation of different characters (humans / animals) taking textures and their shadows as exploration resources, and combining different materials to stimulate the senses.
Materials:
Aluminum foil
Wool
Threads
Paper tape
Cardboard Base
Markers
We begin by showing the children the sculptures of this artist so that they have a reference. Propose them to model shapes of animals and humans with aluminum foil that is very easy to work with. Emphasizing that they are beings that do not exist, fantastic, hybrid beings (a mixture between the animal, the vegetable and the human). We can have animals or small dolls at hand as a guide …
Then wrap these beings with wool of different colors to give them polychrome. Explain how to lock the yarn when starting with a new color.
Es divertido jugar con la lana!!
We glue the character on a cardboard / paper base
So was our bestiary !!! Let’s do it!
