Emergency 2nd & 3rd

ART – Kandinsky Circle Art

MATERIALS — copy paper, markers, colored pencils or crayons Examples of circular art by Kandinsky (see images to the left)

PROCEDURE — Introduce students to the visual artist Wassily Kandinsky and point out that he was also a talented musician. a

Explain to students that color often relates to emotions: red- anger; blue- calmness or loneliness; yellow- happiness, contentment; green – harmony; black- sadness, etc.

Discuss Kandinsky’s works and how it makes them feel.

Have students fold the drawing paper into six squares.

Draw and color a different size circle in each square.

Extend It: Play music while students are drawing and have them use the colors to represent how the music made them feel as they were drawing.