Fourth grade Wassily Kandinsky Abstract art

Fourth grade artists are learning about the art and life of Wassily Kandinsky.  We viewed a powerpoint about his life and art, did a "turn and tell" with a friend to review the most interesting points about his life and art, and then began our own artwork based on Kandinsky's famous artwork with concentric circles.

Students divided up their papers by folding them into eighths and then chose a shape or two to use in their concentric shape pattern.

On day two, we painted using only the primary colors in every other box. Then we mixed our own secondary colors for the remaining boxes. 

The final step of the project was to design an abstract background for our artwork. Our papers are so big that sometimes a few of us need to work on the floor!

 

We used a concept map on the back of our artworks to share 6 facts that we learned about Wassily Kandinsky. This helps kids to have some discussion points to talk with their families about when they take their artworks home.

Learning Goals:

I can recognize the art of Wassily Kandinsky

I can tell some facts about Kandinsky's life and art.

I can create an abstract artwork.

I can use concentric shapes.

I can mix primary colors to make secondary colors. 

Kindergarten Piet Mondrian Fish

Kindergarten artists have been studying the abstract art of Piet Mondrian. Specifically, we looked at "Broadway Boogie Woogie" and and fun singing a song about Mondrian! We noticed how his lines go only horizontal and vertical and how he used only primary colors. We drew a fish and then designed him in a Mondrian way!

4th grade Kandinsky Abstract art

4th graders are having fun creating abstract art in the style of Wassily Kandinsky! They learned about how his art is different from realistic art and interesting facts about his life.

Each artist chose their own color scheme such as: warm, cold, primary, secondary or neutral colors. They started with free flowing lines and when they finished, we had fun "seeing" things in our abstract pictures. After adding patterns and tracing, we will be done!

4th Grade Mary Cassatt Self-Portraits

4th Grade artists studied the art and life of Mary Cassatt. They noticed how she loved to paint people, especially children! We drew our own portraits onto leftover laminating film and glued them to these warm or cool painted abstract designs.

4th grade Kandinsky Abstract Art

4th graders have been studying the abstract style of Wassily Kandinsky. They learned about his condition called "synesthesia" where the senses are mixed up allowing people to "hear" colors and "see" sounds. For Kandinsky, music and art were very much connected! We listened to some music and envisioned what it might look like if we could see music. Then we used simple shapes in a grid like Kandinsky's circles to create our work with our own versions of abstract art in the frame. We also worked with mixing primary colors  to get secondary colors!

Download Slide Show about Kandinsky Here