An art project for kids

1. OMA’S FOREST
BY
Agustín Ibarrola

2. Agustín is a painter and a sculptor

3. • Agustín was born in
Basauri, Vizcaya in
1930.
• He studied at the
“Escuela Oficial de Artes
y Oficios” in Bilbao.
• After that he received a
scholarship and moved
to Madrid to study at
Vázquez Díaz workshop.
He was a co-founder of
a group of artists called
“57”. They were
experimental and they
revolutionized the
world of the plastic art.

4. Can you find Vizcaya on the map?

5. • He experimented with
various materials
throughout his career,
such as waxes, railway
sleepers, cartons, cast
iron, tree barks and
calcareous stones.

6. Where does Agustín Ibarrola find his
inspiration?
• ‘There are caves near
my house that were
inhabited and in which
there are paintings from
thousands of years ago.
I am influenced by
these paintings and I
am influenced in
general by the remains
of other times, the
dolmens, the Celtic
constructions….’
Santamañine cave:

7. • In the eighties, he
began to work on
the pines of a forest
near his house, in
the area of Valley of
Oma (Vizcaya).
• There Agustín created
one of the greatest
universes of art.
• One of his most
famous works of art is
“El Bosque de Oma”.

8. • Another of his
best known
sculptures is "The
Cubes of
Memory", in the
Port of Llanes
(Asturias).

9. • He has received
numerous awards,
among them the
French Prize of
Criticism in 1966 and
the Gold Medal of
Fine Arts in Madrid in
1993.

10. Let’s see some of his artwork:
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11. Now let’s paint like Agustín Ibarrola.
• MATERIALS:
Wooden pegs, clay
and paints.
Let’s recreate one of
Agustín Ibarrola
sculptures called “el
bosque de los
tótems”.

12. Let’s paint tree branches follwing
Agustin Ibarrola desings.
• MATERILAS:
Tree branches, and
paint.
Try to paint the
branch with similar
designs like Agustín
Ibarrola did.

13. OUR OMA’S FOREST. Let’s paint our
school’s trees.