Concentric Circle Art Projects With Lesson Plans Concentric Circles Art Project

One of my favorite things to practice is to really talk to kids and find out what is going on in their little noggins. This is a project which focuses on the BIG IDEAS in Art (is your curriculum heading toward big ideas rather than standards and benchmarks? In Florida they are chosen the NGSSS and while any curriculum change is hard to eat, the NGSSS are exactly the way I like to teach art: to become away from the cookie-cutter images and let educatee responses to the Big Ideas.)

Anyway,

Wassily Kandinsky's "Study of Concentric Circles"

This is by far one of my favorite lessons that I do with my Kindergartners and First Graders! Once I get across the logistical hassle of prepping paints and keeping water clean, I am THRILLED with the results, both in a tangiable style, and in an educational way.

I start my lesson out with Wassily Kandisnky's "Study of Concentric Circles" up on the board. Without giving them Whatever factual data, I ask them the post-obit questions:

"Who do you think made this"- answers: "A Kindergartner, an illustrator, a 5th grader, an artist, Mr. Davis, Yous! {followed by SHREIK, GASP! NO SHE DID Non! She is a WAAAAY better artist than THAT!}, a clown, an elephant {really?!}....)

"Artworks usually have titles. What title would y'all requite this artwork?" - answers: "Eyeballs. Circle Circle Dot Dot. Twelve. Target Do. Target Store. Coiled Snakes. Colorful Hula Hoops...."

Take I ever mentioned how much I love how carefree children recollect?

I so give them the background nearly this piece. Wassily Kandinsky oft painted circles on canvass as a color theory experiment to testify how different colors reacted when placed next to lighter or darker hues. Wassily never thought these studies would be sold, never mind highly regarded in the art world. Students are not intimidated past his piece of work because they're CIRCLES, which they know they tin can make, too!

For this project, I focused on the Big Idea of Disquisitional Thinking and Reflection: Cognition and reflection are required to appreciate, interpret, and create with artistic intent.

Then I asked my Kindergartners "Can you make an artwork similar Kandinsky? What colors would you lot choose? Would y'all pigment it similar he did? Would you lot use concentric circles like he did?"
One Kindergartner'south response to my Big Idea (estimation):

For this project, we used 12x12 sheets of white paper, fluorescent tempera paints, and crayon on Day two once the paint was dry out.

Another question I asked them: "How many circles does Kandinsky pigment? Nosotros only made 1, how can we brand ours look similar Kandinsky's?

A (fractional) Kindergarten class's response to my question: (put them next to each other- information technology's hard to meet the calibration here, but these are all 12"x12" pieces of individual newspaper the kids put together)

In First grade, I posed the aforementioned question(south)/Big Idea, only gave them a rectangular piece of newspaper. How would we break this paper into a filigree?

A first grader's response to my Big Idea (interpretation, creation): (fold the paper into vi sections and pigment/draw circles inside each section.

For this projection in Showtime Form, nosotros used 12x18 sheets of white paper folded into half dozen sections. We used fluorescent tempera, and crayon on meridian once the paint was stale.

After their paintings were dried, I gave them crayons and asked them how they would distinguish their piece of work from someone else's and to make certain we weren't copying the artist's work exactly, but notwithstanding keep the same primary idea of concentric circles.

Their response: depict some circular-ish designs on top of the paint (which Kandinsky did not do).

Even though half my kids can't say or pronounce his name, they know they tin can brand circles Simply like Kandinsky! What would your students' response exist?

Joanna Davis-Lanum is a National Board Certified teacher and teaches Fine art at Garden Unproblematic School in Venice, Florida. For more Kandinsky inspiration, you can bank check out another Kinder Kandinsky lesson right here.

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