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        • Chihuly
        • Moses
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    • School of Innovation SLIDES
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    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
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    • Additional Faces >
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      • Helpers - when disasters occur
      • Louis Braille
  • Places
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Rio
        • Giant Sequoias
        • Great Wall of China
        • Mount Everest
        • Taj Mahal
        • Grand Canyon
        • Pyramids of Egypt
        • Stonehenge
        • Kyoto
        • Tokyo
      • 2nd 9 Weeks >
        • Venice
        • the Vatican
        • Crystal Bridges
        • Arlington National Cemetery
        • Cave of Crystals/Others
        • Westminster Abbey
        • Sydney Opera House
        • Christmas Places
      • 3rd 9 WEEKS >
        • Westminster Palace/Parliament
        • Easter Island
        • ISS
        • Paris
        • Amazon Rainforest
        • Serengeti
        • Festivals!
        • Walt Disney World
        • Pompeii
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Tibet in Exile - INDIA
        • Istanbul
        • Sri Lanka
        • Jerusalem
        • Washington D.C.
        • Florence
        • WEINER!!!
    • YEARS 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Petra
        • Cinque Terre
        • Yosemite
        • Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
        • Galapagos Islands
        • Keukenhof
        • Thorncrown Chapel
        • Machu Picchu
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Chicago
        • Memphis
        • Scandinavia
        • The Dead Sea
        • Rome
        • Beijing
        • Christmas Week
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • GREECE
        • Mecca
        • Ireland
        • Moscow, Russia
        • Chichen Itza
        • Palace of Versailles
        • Dubai
        • Cairo, Egypt
        • Freedom Tower / 911 Memorial
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Barcelona, Spain
        • New York City
        • Angkor Wat, Cambodia
        • Terracotta Soldiers
        • Mount Rushmore
        • Parkin Archeological State Park
        • Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
    • Additional PLACES
  • Artists
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • Artist of the Week - 1st 9-weeks >
        • Bierstadt
        • Adams and National Parks
        • Monet
        • Renoir
        • Wood
        • Rembrandt
        • O'Keeffe
        • Hokusai
        • Durer
        • da Vinci
      • Artist of the Week - 2nd 9-weeks >
        • Raphael
        • Munch
        • Rivera
        • Titian
        • Rockwell
        • El Greco
        • Constable
        • Christmas art
        • David
      • Artist of the Week 3rd 9-weeks >
        • Degas
        • Vermeer
        • Cassatt
        • Turner
        • Homer
        • Whistler
        • Seurat
        • Van Gogh
        • Disney
      • Artist of the Week 4th 9-weeks >
        • Sargent
        • Chagall
        • Kandinsky
        • Picasso
        • Dali
        • Remington
        • Mondrian
        • Pollock
    • YEAR 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Chihuly
        • Moses
        • Durer and Line
        • Matisse and Shape
        • Van Eyck and Texture
        • Velazquez - Space
        • Christy - Constitution Day
        • Monet and Color
        • Rembrandt and Value
        • Art Review- 1st 9-weeks
      • 2nd Nine Weeks Art >
        • da Vinci and Drawing
        • Cassatt and Painting
        • Hokusai and printmaking
        • Picasso and Collage
        • Rivera and murals
        • Michelangelo and sculpture
        • Relief Sculpture
        • Rodin and modern sculpture
        • Schulz and cartooning
        • Van Allsburg and illustration
      • 3rd Nine Weeks Art >
        • Warhol and Pattern
        • Escher and positive negative space
        • Van Gogh and rhythm
        • O'Keeffe and scale/proportion
        • Caravaggio and Emphasis
        • Kandinsky and Variety
        • Cezanne and Balance
        • Art in ancient culture
      • 4th Nine Weeks Art >
        • Bruegel and genre
        • Illuminated manuscripts
        • Adams and photography
        • Wright and architecture
        • Seurat and art displaying
        • Toulouse-Lautrec and graphic art
        • Tiffany and decorative arts
        • Drake and crafts
        • New Media Art
    • Halloween Art
    • Veterans Day & Art
    • Thanksgiving art
    • Valentine's Day art
    • Presidents Day
  • Musicians
    • YEAR 1 & 3 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Beethoven
        • Claude Debussy
        • John Phillip Sousa
        • W. A. Mozart
        • John Williams
        • William Grant Still
        • Carl Orff
        • Amy Beach
        • Scott Joplin
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Stephen Foster
        • Andrew Lloyd Webber
        • Johnny Cash
        • Aaron Copland
        • Thanksgiving Music
        • Tchaikovsky
        • Handel
        • Johnny Marks
        • Leroy Anderson
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Pentatonix
        • Elton John
        • Louis Armstrong
        • Glen Campbell
        • Woody Guthrie
        • The Gershwin Brothers
        • Dr. Seuss Music
        • The British Invasion
        • Glenn Miller
        • Henry Mancini
        • Alan Menken
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • George M. Cohan
        • Rimsky-Korsakov
        • Rodgers & Hammerstein
        • Albert Ketelbey
        • Andre Segovia
        • Robert Rodriguez
        • Antonio Vivaldi
        • Stevie Wonder
        • Carrie Underwood
        • Keith Urban
    • YEARS 2 & 4 >
      • 1st Nine Weeks >
        • Glen Campbell
        • Dolly Parton
        • Beach Boys
        • Richard Wagner
        • John Lennon
        • Camille Saint-Saens
        • Rossini
        • Mark Alan Springer
        • Review Week
        • Bobby McFerrin
        • Randall Standridge
      • 2nd Nine Weeks >
        • Chicago
        • Elvis Presley
        • J. S. Bach
        • Banjamin Britten
        • Leonard Bernstein
        • Ella Fitzgerald
        • One Voice Children's Choir
        • Christmas Around the World
        • Jingle Bells
      • 3rd Nine Weeks >
        • Bedrich Smetana
        • Garth Brooks
        • Edgar Varese
        • Joni Mitchell
        • Frederic Chopin
        • Valentine's Day
        • Koji Kondo
        • Philip Glass
        • Lin-Manuel Miranda
        • Review Week
      • 4th Nine Weeks >
        • Marian Anderson
        • Johann Strauss, Jr. >
          • Johann Strauss, Jr.
        • John Denver
        • Moses Hogan
        • Barry Manilow
        • Gloria Estefan
        • Wynton Marsalis
        • George Strait
        • Jake Shimabukuro
        • Yanni
  • CHARACTER WORDS
  • School of Innovation!
    • Laying a Foundation
    • It's OFFICIAL!
    • Rationale
    • Mission & Vision
    • ADE Approved Plan
    • Graphic Plan
    • Implementation Plan
  • Library
  • G./T.
  • Class Sites
    • Mrs. Paige, Kindergarten
    • Miss Kristen, 1st & 2nd Grade
    • Mrs. Sitzer, 1st & 2nd grade
    • Miss Bradley, 3rd & 4th grade
    • Mrs. Wilson, 4th & 3rd Grade
    • Ms. Thompson, 5th & 6th grade
    • Mrs. Neely, 5th & 6th Grades
    • Mr. Hernandez, Spanish
    • Mr. HIcks, Counselor
    • Mrs. Wendy, Learning Lab/Music
  • Student portfolio sites
  • National Blue Ribbon School Info

Wassily Kandinsky - In the Classroom

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Monday - Kandinsky and painting of the week

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist – that means he studied and wrote about what elements are important within a work of art.  He is credited with being the first to paint a purely abstract painting.  Our painting of the week is known by its German title, Mit und Gegen, or With and Against, and it is definitely an abstract painting.
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Mit und Gegen by Kandinsky
YouTube video - Student's biography of Wassily Kandinsky (1:56 min.)

Tuesday - Kandinsky's background

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Haystacks at Giverny by Monet
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Haystacks at Giverny by Monet
Kandinsky was a member of the law profession in Russia until he began painting at the age of 30.  One event that influenced his abrupt career change was seeing an exhibition of French Impressionists in Moscow.  Kandinsky was especially inspired by Claude Monet's Haystacks at Giverny. Kandinsky chose to abandon his law career and move to Munich, Germany to devote himself full-time to the study of art.  
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The Blue Rider by Kandinsky 1903
One of his most important paintings from his earlier painting years was The Blue Rider, which shows a small cloaked figure on a speeding horse rushing through a rocky meadow. The rider is shown more as a series of colors than in detail.  Kandinsky later taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.
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Degenerate Art Exhibit sign
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Nazis officers and Germans viewing the Degenerate Exhibit.
Hitler labeled modern artists as "incompetents, cheats and madmen" and said there would be no place for modern art in the Nazi regime.  The Nazis confiscated some of Kandinsky’s paintings and those of other modern artists, such as Chagall.  These confiscated artworks were displayed in an exhibit the Nazis called, “Degenerate Art”. 
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Composition X painted in France by Kandinsky
Kandinsky moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen and producing some of his most prominent art.

Wednesday - Kandinsky and abstract art

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The first piece of abstract art - a watercolor by Kandinsky
In 1910, Kandinsky painted the first piece of abstract art, which was done in watercolor. In traditional art, an image or symbol is drawn that represents something or someone.  That drawing is supposed to make the viewer think of a particular object or person.  

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Close-up of Chagall's I and the Village
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Kandinsky
For example, in Chagall’s work last week, we could recognize a goat or a man even though it might be blue and floating in the sky. Kandinsky’s art did not try to represent objects.  Abstract art does not depict a person, place or thing in the natural world -- even in a distorted or exaggerated way. 
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The purpose or subject of the work is based just on what you see: color, shapes, brushstrokes, size, scale, and, in some cases, the process.  Kandinsky was the first to realize a work of art could be beautiful or worthwhile without representing something.  His works are simply compositions with shapes and colors that have harmony and structure.  
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Kandinsky believed that colors produce emotions. Red was lively and confident; Green was peaceful with inner strength; Blue was deep and supernatural; Yellow could be warm, exciting, or even disturbing; and White seemed silent but full of possibilities.  
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Composition VII by Kandinsky
Kandinsky’s creative ideas about color and painting were sometimes criticized by others, but he became a respected leader of the abstract art movement in the early 20th century.  This is a quote from Wassily Kandinsky:  “Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult.  It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet.  This last is essential.”
YouTube video - Slide show of Kandinsky's paintings (3:55 min.)

Thursday - Kandinsky and music

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Kandinsky's Improvisation #19
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Kandinsky's Improvisation #10
A second event had a deep influence on Kandinsky’s desire to paint besides seeing Monet’s haystack painting.  It was hearing Richard Wagner’s music of Lohengrin performed at a Russian theater. Kandinsky drew inspiration from the music, which he realized suggested emotion and stirred imagination even though it couldn’t directly represent figures or landscapes due to its abstract nature. 
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Composition IV by Kandinsky
Music was important to the birth of abstract art. Kandinsky sometimes used musical terms to identify his works; he called his most spontaneous paintings "improvisations" and described more elaborate works as "compositions." 
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Composition V by Kandinsky
He also assigned instrument tones to go with each color: Red sounded like a trumpet; Green sounded like a middle-position violin; Light Blue sounded like flute; Dark Blue sounded like a cello, Yellow sounded like a fanfare of trumpets; and White sounded like the pause in a harmonious melody. 
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Composition VI by Kandinsky
Friday - Kandinsky's influence
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Kandinsky’s abstract art altered the world of art and helped begin its modern age.  In 2012, one of his paintings, Study for Improvisation 8, was auctioned for $23 million. 

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In 2014, Google honored Kandinsky on what would’ve been his 148th birthday by featuring a Google Doodle based on his paintings.
YouTube video - Kandinsky Circle Art Lesson for Lower Elementary (6:26 min.)
YouTube video - Concentric Circles Art Lesson for Upper Elementary (3:53 min.)
 In 2014, Google honored Kandinsky on what would’ve been his 148th birthday by featuring a Google Doodle based on his paintings.

Arkansas Visual Art Frameworks

VA.5.4.5  Describe ways color combinations are used to communicate emotion and symbolic use

VA.5.4.16  investigate variety in a work of art


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