The abstract world of Kandinsky

Explore abstract art and music inspired by artist Wassily Kandinsky

Student visual arts and music resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 3 to 6 music

Your students will:

• explore the concept of abstract art and the work of Wassily Kandinsky

• identify shape, form and colour used in Kandinsky’s work

• create abstract artworks experimenting with shape, form and colour

• appreciate the work of other students inspired by Kandinsky

• experiment with music and art in Chrome Music Lab.

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

Visual Arts

• VAS2.1: represents the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful by choosing among aspects of subject matter.

• VAS2.2: uses the forms to suggest the qualities of subject matter.

• VAS2.3: acknowledges that artists make artworks for different reasons and that various interpretations are possible.

• VAS2.4: identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciates the use of particular techniques.

• VAS3.2: makes artworks for different audiences assembling materials in a variety of ways.

• VAS3.3: acknowledges that audiences respond in different ways to artworks and that there are different opinions about the value of artworks.

• VAS3.4: communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks.

Music

• MUS2.2: improvises musical phrases, organises sounds and explains reasons for choices.

• MUS3.2: improvises, experiments, selects, combines and orders sound using musical concepts.

Collection of student work

• Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.

• Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.

• MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.

• Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.

• Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

• Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.

For further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard