Giving form to the essence

Art with Matthias Zaeslin (BR)

Session 1 

Theme: Perspective, Transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Anthropology of 7th-8th Grade pupils. After the introduction, we will discuss the anthropology of 7th and 8th grade and make observations of works of art history comparing the medieval and Renaissance periods

Session 2 

Theme: Light and Shadow, Mannerism and Baroque, Anthropology of 9th and 10th Grades, Polarities of the Soul. We will use images by Caravaggio, Georges de la Tour, Chardin, Rembrandt, and others, with intense contrasts of light and shadow, to illustrate these ideas in art history. 

Session 3 

Theme: Me and the World, Anthropology of 11th and 12th Grades, Expressionism, 20th-century avant-gardes, Land Art, education for freedom. The proposal is to talk about the challenges that young people face in finding their way in the world, participating in it, and being co-responsible for it, and how these last school years can support them in this task, with artistic work sensitizing the view to the world and self-perception. Artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, Duchamp, Beuys, and Goldsworthy will illustrate with their works the analysis of this biographical moment. 

Matthias Zaeslin is a teacher of visual arts and music at the Waldorf School in Langenthal, Switzerland, from 1st to 12th grade. He is Brazilian, 41 years old and father of 4 children. 

Graduated in Visual Arts at the Faculdade Paulista de Artes in São Paulo, he has 20 years of experience teaching arts at the Waldorf Rudolf Steiner School in São Paulo and at the Rudolf Steiner College there. Matthias is motivated by the intense exchange of ideas fostered by the school environment.