Art that migrates to our homes

Art that migrates to our homes
28.04.2020, Anna Kudarewska

In Krzyżowa, we follow what is currently happening on social media, we look at the diverse educational and cultural offer that is flourishing online and we are looking for inspiration for our work. We have not missed the action of many world museums: „Beetween Art and Quarantine”. For many people staying home due to quarantine, recreating of the works of famous painters turned out to be fun and brought interesting results.

Our friend Ania Huminiak, who has been co-creating the project "Our common world - global education of children" with us for 3 years, came up with the idea of ​​using this action in a deeper, educational way.

 As part of the training for pre-school and early school teachers, which for the first time took place online, during the block devoted to the topic of migration and refugee, which is important for global education, teachers were supposed to create at home - from available materials - their interpretations of the works of artists who migrated / escaped from their countries and enriched with their art the countries in which they found a new home. In this way, specific educational goals are achieved through creative play, that can also be used successfully in working with children and young people: learning the subject of migration from an art perspective, getting to know specific migrants and their stories and getting closer to the art itself by analyzing the works and their details. This approach allows initiating closer emotional contact with specific individuals and opposes the widespread depiction of migrants in the media as a nameless wave causing a threat. It also emphasizes the contribution of migration processes to creating the intangible heritage of humanity.

And here are some of the results created by the teachers on the 30-minute coffee break during our training:

1. MARC CHAGALL, refugee from revolutionary Russia and occupied France

PAINTER AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER, FOUNDER OF THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN WITEBSK, A LEADER REPRESENTATIVE OF CUBISM AND INTERNATIONALISM IN PAINTING

2. PARMIS VARD, political refugee from Iran

MAKES PORTRAIT PAINTING WITH PASTELS, CREATES IN AUSTRIA, COOPERATES WITH THE RESTART GROUP

Source: https://www.moas.eu/blog-refugee-artists-art-gallery/

3. PIET MONDRIAN, migrant from the Netherlands, war refugee

CO-FOUNDER OF THE DE STIJL GROUP, PRECURSOR OF ABSTRACTIONISM, CREATOR OF NEOPLASTICISM, INSPIRATOR OF ARCHITECTURE, FASHION, 20th CENTURY DESIGN