As part of an intentional teaching experience for art appreciation, I decided to set up another experience based on an artwork by Wassily Kandinsky FARBSTUDIE QUADRATE.
The goal: Art appreciation is recognising the work of artists for what is meaningfully and beautifully communicates about us, the world and nature. One of my goals as part of the process art inquiry and art appreciation was to expose a group of preschoolers to different famous artists and introduce their most famous artwork to discuss, to inspire children to interrogate any artwork, develop visual literacy and, of course, to practice with mark-making and creative work.
When I will show children the artwork FARBSTUDIE QUADRATE
I will ask the following questions:
- What do you notice?
- What did the artist use to make this artwork?
- What type of artwork is it?
- What Lines, shapes or colours do you notice?
- How long do you think it took to make this artwork?
- Why did the artist make these shapes or lines?
- How does this artwork make you feel?
- What else would you like to share about this art?
Children were given scissors, tracing cups and jars, and pencils. We talked about how to trace and cut out shapes. C. , A., K., E., C. and C., enjoyed tracing a lot, they had a choice of paper and colour as well as the size of their circles.
Every child created a very unique artwork in the style of Kandinsky, that was displayed on the wall.
Analysis: During the experience children were exposed to the symbolism of Kandinsky’s work and started to consider how art is made, and how it makes us feel. As confident and effective communicators, children created their own representations of QUADRATE. They have learnt to trace and cut out, and they demonstrated growing confidence with scissors and pasted circles effectively.
The experience links to outcome 5 as children used art-medium (coloured paper) to express their feeling and show their creativity and vivid imagination.
What next? Continue exploration of different art media and famous artists artwork. Paint patterns in nature, e.g. flowers and forests, waterfalls.
