Let's free painting - Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi

On the occasion of the exhibition Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without rules, visits and workshops are offered to schools of all levels to experience the exhibition as a space for personal experimentation and sharing with the whole class.

The tours are calibrated for the different age groups, are structured in a dialogue mode and include hands-on experiences in the exhibition. The activities in the workshop follow the visit and invite visitors to rework the stimuli received from the works through an experience to be carried out independently or in groups.

Before the visit

During the first days of the exhibition, free meetings are organised for teachers and materials are made available to prepare for the visit, deepen some content on the artists and make the activities more inclusive.

Materiali di approfondimento Available from 9 october

After booking, teachers are asked to fill in a pre-visit questionnaire (soon available) that gathers information about the characteristics of the class in order to improve the visiting experience.

Visiting the exhibition

During their visit to the exhibition, classes III, IV and V of the primary school are accompanied on a discovery of the large canvases on display dotted with explosions of colour, shades, spots and marks. Observing the works provides an insight into the particular techniques of the artist who explores new relationships between colour, space and form. Breaking rules and overcoming limits are the essential characteristics of his art.
The visit to the exhibition includes a dialogic mode to encourage the expression of one’s own ideas and proposes practical experiences to enter into a relationship with the works also through the senses and the body.

Duration one and a half hours
Cost 3 € per student plus ticket price (free for children under 6, students with disabilities, teachers accompanying the class)

Visit + workshop

What traces do sponges, trowels, rollers and rakes leave on the canvas? What role do randomness and anticipation play in artistic experimentation?
A visit to Helen Frankenthaler’s exhibition can be complemented by a creative workshop inspired by the stimuli received from the works on display. During the activity, the children try out some of the tools and processes used by the artist to discover how each mark and stain is the result of different actions. Individual and collective experiments stimulate a creative process where colours and freedom of expression are the protagonists.

Duration two hours
Cost 4 € per student plus ticket price (free for children under 6, students with disabilities, teachers accompanying the class)

Chiavi della città

Palazzo Strozzi adheres to Le Chiavi della città, the Florence City Council’s initiative that promotes the offer of educational and formative supplementary courses for Florentine schools.