BG/BRG/BORG 22 Polgarstrasse 24

participating classes: about three, level 6 to 7 (age:15-17 years)

about 25 pupils

Type of school: with focus on natural sciences and (another one) with focus on art

Furthermore involved subjects: geography, biology, languages (Spanish, French and English )

Planned outdoor activities/ excursion: Botanical garden Vienna, Art museum- Künstlerhaus Vienna,

Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt Wien

BG/BRG/BORG22 Polgarstrasse 24

Objectives for the pupils:

Pupils should :

• enhance the ability to reflect and communicate about art• develop different strategies and methods in dissolving problems

• should gain technical professional competence and methods expertiseas well as soft skills and self competence

• should become aware of the possibility of transfer of knowledge by the use of subject typical potential

• learn how to document their personal activities and developments in an adequate form by compiling their results in an exemplary and presentable way.

• get to know about the correlation of interactions between artistic manifestationsand socially developments in and out of Europe.

BG/BRG/BORG 22 Polgarstrasse 24

Program of artistic emphasis:

Workshop with artist /length of time: 3 days

First part 7. 11. 2005 (at school)

Second part between March and May (studio of the artist)

Artist: Mag. art Georg Lebzelter

Artistic area : graphics

BG/BRG/BORG 22 Polgarstrasse 24

Practical work:

Examination of different artistic techniques ( frottage, etching, lithography, etc.)

Theoretical background:

Examination of natural forms and their transformation in works of art during the centuries

( for example Erich Haeckel, Klee, Kandinsky, Arnulf Rainer, Art Nouveau,…)

BG/BRG/BORG 22 Polgarstrasse 24

In chronological order sequences of artistic activities in cooperation with the artist

• Collecting, selecting material

• Moulds of herbal natural material by frottage

• Experimentation in form of rearrangement, recombining the originated results, etc.

• Transfer, transform of the results by using different graphical techniques

• Record of the whole process by keeping research books

BG/BRG/BORG 22 Polgarstrasse 24

Communication/ exchange:

1. • How pupils deal with nature:

• personal views upon the natural environment in our towns (garden architecture, wild nature, own private gardens..)

• personal experiences with natural phenomena • how we enjoy, use, play (or used to play as children) with/ within nature

2.• Inquiry about the historical/ political meaning of cultivated/ non cultivated nature in

our towns3.• We present our artist

WORKSHOP

Selecting material

Printing

Results

Reflection