In motion
Little English School, Vicenza
As a first step
children analysed the
“tricks” to represent
movement used by
Italian Futurists (like
Giacomo Balla, Gino
Severini and
Umberto Boccioni).
Moving cars
Moving trees
We then looked at real
movement in art work, like
Calder’s mobiles. First
children experienced
balancing, working in pairs
in a special laboratory.
Later they
elaborated
their
experience
projecting
and creating
their
personal
mobile.
After this, they had the chance to experiment
collective class work: always following
Calder’s example, children created a big fish.