Kandinsky Circles

Subject: Elementary Art Grade level: 1st Teacher: Kelly Case

Date: September 26, 2012 Campus: Cowan Elementary

*Independent Practice *Whole group Instruction
*Cooperative Learning *Technology Integration
*Visuals *Group/Directed Practice / *Centers
*Lectures
*A Project
TEKS/Standards:
(1)Perception. The student develops and organizes ideas from the environment. The student is expected to:
(A)identify similarities, differences, and variations among subjects, using the senses; and
(B)identify color, texture, form, line, and emphasis in nature and in the human-made environment.
(2)Creative expression/performance. The student expresses ideas through original artworks, using a variety of media with appropriate skill. The student is expected to:
(A)invent images that combine a variety of colors, forms, and lines;
(B)place forms in orderly arrangement to create designs; and
(C)increase manipulative skills, using a variety of materials to produce drawings, paintings, prints, and constructions.
(3)Historical/cultural heritage. The student demonstrates an understanding of art history and culture as records of human achievement. The student is expected to:
(A)identify simple ideas expressed in artworks through different media. / Homework:
none
Time / Procedures & Objectives for Lesson Activities / Materials needed
Warm-Up/
Lecture and Visuals on the life of Wassily Kandinsky
5-10
minutes / Students will learn about the life of artist WassilyKandinsky. Students will learn where artist was born, when he became an artist, how he uses music to inspire his artwork (see attached slide show)
Students will learn about abstract art, shape, and color.
Abstract art: art that uses shape, color, and form to create a composition without making recognizable figures or real life.
Shapes: triangle, square, circle, rhombus, rectangle.
Color: you can use color to express emotion. Kandinsky listened to music when he painted and chose colors based on the mood the music put him in. / Teacher’s materials:
Kandinsky Power Point, projector, screen
Student’s materials:
None yet.
LESSON / STRUCTURE/ACTIVITIES
1st
Activity
Group activity analyzing a painting.
5_____
min. / Students will view two Kandinsky paintings:“Composition VIII”and “Yellow, Red, Blue”
(slide 5 on the power point) and will identify shapes and color in them.
Teacher will ask students, “what types of shapes do you see in this painting? What about color? Teacher will ask students to raise their hands if they have a response. / Teacher’s materials:
Kandinsky Power Point, projector, screen
Student’s materials:
None yet
2nd
Activity
Group will practice drawing to the rhythm of different music.
__10-15_
min / Students will draw lines to the rhythm of music and choose colors based on the way the music makes them feel.
Teacher will go through the next few slides of the power point and talk about how Kandinsky loved music and how he listened to music to help him decide what colors and shapes to use. Teacher will explain how fast and upbeat music can make you feel energetic and happy and how you might use brighter, warm colors and how slow, sad music might make you feel blue so you might use cool colors.
Teacher will pass out computer paper to each table and will instruct students to get a crayon from the basket on their table.
Teacher will demonstrate on the chalkboard with a piece of paper. Teacher will play the first track of the CD and with a crayon will demonstrate how to loosen up and create shapes and line to go with the beat of the music. Teacher will be asking questions like “is the tempo fast or slow?” “Is it happy or sad?” “what kind of shapes do you see in your mind when you listen to this song?” Teacher will put a big piece of paper up on the chalk board and will demonstrate in front of the class how to make line drawing to different kinds of music that she will play. For soft parts draw lightly, for loud parts draw dark and thick, for fast parts draw a lot of line with big motion, etc.
Students will now get to practice on their paper. Teacher will play a portion of a fast song, a medium song, and a slow song. Students will be drawing along with the song. / Teacher’s materials:
CD with a variety of different beats and sound.
Student’s materials:
Piece of computer paper, crayon.
3rd Activity
Teacher directs the group how to begin their prject.
5
min / Students will begin preparing for their own circle oil pastel drawings. (Students will have seen an example of this in the slide show)
Teacher will show the class Kandinsky’s circle painting again on the power point and then will show her example of her own version of Kandinsky’s circle drawing. She will inform the class that they too will get to create their own circle drawings. Students will each get a piece of 12 x 12 paper. Student will write their name on the back and then fold it in half and then in half again, creating 4 squares on their paper. Students will start with pencil and draw a horizontal and vertical line along the folds they just created to make a cross defining the fold lines. Students are now prepared to start the next step. / Teacher’s materials:
Make sure there is enough people
Student’s materials:
12 x 12 sheet of paper, pencil.
4th Activity
Group works on Kandinsky circles.
10-15_ min. / Students will complete an oil pastel drawing in the style of Kandinsky.
Using oil pastels, students are to make a circle in the middle of eachsquare and fill it in with an oil pastel color of their preference.Teacher will be playing music in the background to inspire students. Then they gradually add rings of different colorsaround it, some thick and some thin until they reach the edge of thesquare. The corners are filled in as needed.
Students continue until all the squares are filled in. Remind themthat slow, solid coloring is going to look much better than quick scribbles, especially with oil pastels. / Teacher’s materials:
Power point, oil pastels for the whole class, CD, and CD player.
Student’s materials:
Oil pastels, 12 x 12 paper, pencil.
CLOSURE
5
min / Teacher sets timer to go off 5 minutes before class is out to alert the class it is time to clean up.
When the timer goes off students know to freeze and wait for instruction. Teacher tells students to put all pencils in the green basket in the middle of their table and their papers in their folders. Students will put their oil pastel drawings in their personal folders and then place their folder in the large color-coded folder for each table. (Red table has a red marked folder; blue table has a blue one, etc.)
Teacher announces it is time to give out Super Kid awards. Teacher then looks to see what two students are exemplifying exceptional behavior and awards them with a “Super Kid Award”. (The students are very familiar with this reward system as it is used in all special area classes) Teacher then tells the Super Kid picks of the day to line up first, being a role model for the rest of the class, and then calls each table one at a timeby color to line up. For example, “blue table you may line up”, “now yellow table you may line up”. / Teacher’s materials:
Timer
Student’s materials:
Put away

Assessment(s): (attach copies of assessment documents, criteria and rubrics)

Rubric to come

ILL/504/SpEd accommodations:

Max: Has autism and frequent outbursts where he flees the classroom. Has a TA accompany him to class. Can modify lesson if need be. He sometimes has sensory issues so he might not want to use the oil pastels, if that is the case he can just use markers.

Tyler: Tyler is also autistic, and needs a little redirection from time to time. But he will be able to participate with all of the activities.

Lesson Overview / teacher notes:

Students will probably need a whole other class period to work on their circles. Teacher will adjust according to the pace of each class.