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Educational activities
Art workshops
In addition to the Picasso workshops that are run each year as part of the plastic-arts workshops, the Foundation now offers other workshops based on two artists whose work is exhibited: Miró and Perejaume. A workshop is also run on an important and appealing artist, albeit one that is not represented in the Foundation’s collection: Van Gogh. To complete the Foundation’s range of workshops is one based on a genre that it well represented this year within the museum - portrait and self-portrait work.
The Colours of Picasso
Workshop-visit looking at the Picasso works on display from the Palau Foundation collection, explaining the friendship which existed between Pablo Picasso and Josep Palau i Fabre. Mention is also made of the Palau Theory of colour, inspired by the great artist's works. Once in the workshop itself, visitors explore different techniques and media, while producing a work inspired by what they have seen.
Levels: Primary and first phase of ESO
Duration of activity: 1’30h
Price: € 75
Number of students: 20-25 per group
Materials used: Watercolours, crayons, coloured pencils on various types of paper
Activity organised by: T-CUA
Picasso's Puppets
Workshop-visit looking at the Picasso works on display at the Palau Foundation. The particular focus is on the miniature theatre which Picasso built for his daughter Maya, imagining the stories which could be told with the toy puppets created by the Malaga-born artist. During the workshop, students are invited to create their own theatre, decorating its figures and imagining the story they will tell... The activity can be continued at school through theatre productions.
Levels: Infant and primary
Duration of activity: 1’30h
Price: € 75
Number of students: 20-25 per group
Materials used: Template of theatre figures and coloured pens
Activity organised by: T-CUA
An Impression of Colour:Vicent Van Gogh
A look at the Impressionist movement and the work of Van Gogh, learning how to view and appreciate his art. The activity involves drawing and painting a Van Gogh work, with each student taking a section of the original painting to create a new piece using paint and other media (such as sawdust and soap) to achieve intriguing textures. At lower levels the work is produced individually, and in groups at intermediate and higher levels.
Levels: Primary
Duration of activity: 2h
Price: € 160
Number of students: 20-25 per group
Materials used: Images and photocopies, A3 paper, wrapping paper, tempera, soap, sawdust, paintbrush, plates and spoons.
Activity organised by: Viure l’ART
This activity comes complete with a teachers' pack. Just ask!
Painting a Dream. Joan Miró
Taking as its basis an original work by Miró on display at the Foundation, and reproductions of other of the artist's major works, we take a look inside Miró's pictorial world, observing forms, colours, styles of painting... During the workshop, each student will be given a canvas to produce a new role in the Miró style, using a range of materials, with pots full of paint just as Miró used for his murals.
Levels: P5 and Primary
Duration of activity: 2h
Price: € 160
Number of students : 20-25 per group
Materials used: Templates of Miró characters, canvas, coloured plaster, tempera, artist's and decorator's paintbrushes and paint pot
Activity organised by: Viure l’Art
This activity comes complete with a teachers' pack. Just ask!
A Thousand Ways of Painting a Self-Portrait
Experimental workshop to produce self-portraits using various techniques. Once the workshop begins, visitors produce a self-portrait using a mirror to look at themselves as their own models. Next, using the styles explained, they produce a portrait by experimenting with new materials and a cork base. Finally, they look at some of the works on display to discover how the portraits and self-portraits by the various artists included in the collection were produced.
Levels: P5, Primary and ESO years 1 & 2
Duration of activity: 2h
Price:€ 160
Number of students: 20-25 per group
Materials used: Mirror, pencil, watercolour, plaster, A3 paper and cork.
Activity organised by: Viure l’ART
This activity comes complete with a teachers' pack. Just ask!
Painting Poetry
Visitors explore the works of Perejaume on display at the Palau Foundation and step inside the pictorial universe of this artist from the Maresme region. Perejaume presents pictorial landscapes marked by a range of elements suggesting unreal, dream-like spaces. In the workshop, visitors experiment with wood as a base medium to create imaginary landscapes, like those they have seen in the Foundation's galleries.
Levels: Intermediate and Upper levels of Primary, and Secondary
Duration of activity: 2h
Price: € 150
Number of students: 20-25 per group
Materials used: SWooden base, artist's and decorator's brushes, sponges, tempera, watercolours, wax, plaster, newspapers and magazines.
This activity comes complete with a teachers' pack. Just ask!