The students at "Conde de Mayalde" Infant and Primary school in Spain studied Spanish painters by: 1) Learning about Joan Miró and his life and art through research and recreating some of his works. 2) Studying El Greco, including learning about his life, famous works, and visiting museums to see original paintings. 3) Having the younger students recreate some of El Greco's most famous works in their own style.

1. Last year, we studied Spanish painters at
“Conde de Mayalde” Infant and Primary
school in Añover de Tajo (Spain).
This was our experience…

2. Discovering Miró

3. Who is Miró?
Miró was a famous Spanish
painter who was born
in1893 and died in 1983,
when he was 90 years old.

4. How did 5-year children
discover Miró?
They asked
their parents
and searched
for
information
about him
together.

5. Theteacher showeddifferentelements about
Miró.

6. The magic begins….

7. Whenthey paintedas Miró

10. This was ourgallery

11. The dancer

12. La célula mitocondria
( BLUE I , the mitochondriancell)

13. THE GOLD OF THE AZURE

15. The rooster

16. We painted ourselvesusing Miro´s style

17. Finally,we painted hisname with different
and lightcolours

18. The 6-year children
studied other Spanish
and famous painter
called

19. First ofall,we gave some information about
“El Greco”to our parents.
Wechosethisoriginalform…
Mum, daddy:
I have to search for
information about Greco:
this could be photos,
biography…etc.

20. Secondly, our classroom turned intoa big painting.

21. This is
the result

22. We alsostudiedlotsofmuseums where ElGreco’s
paintingsare availableworldwide.

23. We learnt about hislifewatching some
films…

24. reading some poems

25. abouthis different works…

26. We putthe title undereachpicture

27. Words
used in
the
project

28. We learnt the
main
painting´s
titles… .

29. Weformed
lots of words…
regarding El
Greco´s
project

30. We playeddifferent
games related to this
famous painter.

31. Webegan to paint

32. We painted
ourselves
using
ElGreco´s
style

33. We compared the differencesbetweenour pictures and El
Greco´s paintingstyle

35. Whatis a museumfor you?

36. The lastactivityofthis
Projectwas tovisitthe
SantaCruz Museum
where childrencould
see the original
paintings.

37. Itwasa wonderfulexperience

38. We waited
some minutes
before we
went intoit.

39. In thefirst levelsof Primary School, pupils
wanted to participate in ElGreco´sproject.
Theypainted the most important works byEl
Grecowith usingdifferentforms.
Theresultwas…

40. Vista de Toledo
(View of Toledo)

41. El caballero de lamano enel pecho
(Gentleman with his handon hischest)

42. Elsoplón
(A Boy Blowingon an Ember to Light a
Candle)

43. La dama delarmiño(The
Lady of theErmine)

44. San JuanEvangelista
(St John the Evangelist)

45. El entierro del CondeOrgaz(The burial
of the Count ofOrgaz)

46. T H E
E N D

47. CREDITS
This projectwas developedby:
Ideasand realization:
JoséManuel Velarde

48. Photos:
Mabel Sánchez
BelénDíaz
Lola Fuentes
Ana Arcones

49. Music
ReneAubri
Allegro Libre Parcours
PassagersDu Vent
GeorgeFriedrichHandel
Water Music. Suite nº1.
Antonio Vivaldi
TheFourSeason“ TheAutumn”