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Art Activity Video: Didier Triglia
Create a Didier Triglia inspired “Can Creature.”
Activity best for children age 3 and up
Today we are going to make a bas relief sculpture. Instead of the sculpture being able to stand on its own, we attach it to a background that lays behind our sculpture. French artist Didier Tiglier makes bas relief sculptures out of mashed cans most people would just recycle. His art comes from his imagination! He loves to create characters that have both human and animal features. We often describe other people by comparing them to animals; think of a person being sweet as a kitten, or sly as a fox.
Just like Didier Triglia, we will make a bas relief sculpture that has both animal and human parts to it. We’ll give them human expressions to show how they feel and will do this by cutting out and pasting different shapes of eyes and mouths to our soda can head.