Showing posts with label tempera paint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tempera paint. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
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Monday, December 18, 2017
Murals Inspired by Wassily Kandinksy
First and second grade artists learned about Wassily Kandinksy and explored his artwork in several ways. Click here to see more about our work with Kandinksy.
We worked collaboratively to create these two large murals in the style of Kandinsky's abstract expressionist work. We used shapes and themes from his paintings and worked with warm colors first, then added cool colors.
Monday, November 6, 2017
Kandinsky's Circles and Shapes
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Russia in 1866. In his early years as an artist, he explored a variety of media but stayed with a traditional, realistic style. Upon traveling through Europe and viewing art by artists such as Matisse and Gauguin, Kandinsky was influenced to bring vibrant colors into his art. When he became a professor a the Bauhaus School in Germany, his art became less objective and contained lines, circles and other geometric shapes.
Kandinsky has been called a "pioneer of modern art." He believed that art should reach the audience though sight, sound and emotion or spiritual connection. He wanted to create art that let the audience decide on the meaning, much like music brings images into the listener's head.
One of Kandinsky's most well known paintings is "Squares with Concentric Circle" (1913).
Kandinsky loved including circles in his work. Here are some other pieces comprised of circles.
- What do you notice about Kandinsky's work?
- What guesses can you make about the artist?
- What do you like?
- What don't you like?
- Is there anything that you can take from Kandinsky's artwork to inspire your own work?
- How is looking at artwork like listening to music? How is it different?
First and second grade artists competed two piece inspired by the work of Wassily Kandinsky.
For the first project, each student created on square with concentric circles, inspired by Kandinsky's famous painting. We used oil pastels, then observed the watercolor resist technique by painting over our circles with liquid watercolors. We will put these squares together to form a collaborative display.
For the second project, students worked collaboratively to paint a mural inspired by Kandinsky's use of shape, line and color. We started with black paint, then added warm colors, then cool colors.
Click here to explore the connection between art and music with this interactive online game from the Tate Gallery.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FINISHED MURALS!
LEARNING TARGETS:
- I can use art vocabulary to describe Kandinsky's work.
- I can identify and explain similarities between Kandinsky's work and my own art work.
- I can work collaboratively with my classmates on our mural.
- I can identify and use warm and cool colors.
VOCABULARY
- Warm/Cool Colors
- Concentric Circles
- Geometric Shapes
- Abstract Art
- Collaborative
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Paint a Playground
I love these abstract paintings by kindergarten and first and second grade artists! These large scale collaborative paintings were made in response to the prompt: "Draw the coolest playground you can imagine!"
Monday, January 30, 2017
Abstract Paintings inspired by Joan Miro
Here are paintings made by third and fourth graders. They worked in layers over several art classes. These paintings are on large paper.
I should note that students photographed their own artwork using iPads and edited the photos for the best results. This ties into our "Presenting" National Core Art Standard.
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Inspired by "The Great Wave" by Hokusai
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Dragons in the art room!
Kindergarten artists painted whimsical dragons! We loved that there is no "right way" to draw a dragon. We added sequins to give our dragons colorful scales and jewels.
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