Summit Hill Elementary Art EDventures

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Summit Hill ElementaryArt EDventures

• Super Squircles
• Kindergarten/Geometric Shapes I
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Brought to you by S.H.E. PTA

PLEASE NOTE This presentation is to be used for
educational purposes only. Do not reproduce.
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Shape Sharpener

• Lets take a minute to review some shapes. Then
  well go on a hunt to find them during todays
  Art EDventure!
• O.k. class help me! What
  shape is this.?
• Hit enter for blue shape name
• Hit enter for the next shape
• Hit enter for yellow shape name-
• (after kids label it.)
• Het enter for the green shape
• Hit enter for shape name-
• (after the kids label it.)
• Hit enter for red shape and name!
• Good! Now we are ready to go shape searching!

square
Circle
Rectangle
Triangle
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Meet Wassily Kandinsky
Everything starts from a dot.
1866-1944
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Vassily

• Wassily Kandinsky was born in Odessa, Russia a
  very long time ago. (About the time your great
  grandparents were alive!)
• People from Russia say his name with a V or
  Vassily. Can you say it like a Russian?
• When he was your age, he went to a classical
  gymnasium. Thats a funny Russia term for
  elementary school. Thats when he discovered that
  he had a zeal for art and music.

Odessa, Russia
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Painting Music

• Wassily Kandinsky was one smart guy! As a young
  adult, he was a very, very successful Law
  Professor.
• Then, he became a very, very successful Art
  Professor known for painting music.
• To Wassisly, a simple painting was like a
  musical solo (a song played by one instrument.)
• Likewise, a painting with a lot of lines, colors
  and shapes was like a song played by many
  instruments.

Compositions IX
Circles In A Circle
If this painting was music, would one instrument
or many instru-ments be playing? Why?
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Kandinskys Creativity

• Kandinsky liked to paint things from his
  imagination. As you can see, his mind was full of
  lines, shapes, colors and songs!
• Some people loved his art, others thought is was
  goofy. Some people even wanted it destroyed!
• One Kindergartener liked Wassilys art because
  she thought this painting looked like time
  exploding.
• What do YOU think?
• Do you like this painting?
• Why or why not?

Composition VIII
What do you hear?
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Shape Search

• Look at Wassilys painting and find these
  geometric shapes
• -Circle
• -Half Circle
• -Square
• -Triangle
• -Rectangle
• Now look again, can you find parts of his
  painting where he
• combined these shapes together?
• (Hit enter and several shape combinations will be
  highlighted)

Tension In Height
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Delicious Color

• Some of his paintings didnt have a lot of
  geometric shapes-like this one. But it is full
  of fantastic colors.
• As a child, he would go into buildings in Russia,
  just to look at all the delicious colors. That
  is why he put a lot of them into his art.
• Can you name some colors he used in this painting?

Sea Battle by Kandinsky
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Lots of Lines

• Wassily used lots of lines too!
• Can you find these
• different kinds?
• Straight
• Wavy
• Curvy
• Zig Zag
• Some lines are missing
• Dotted
• Spiral

Yellow, Red Blue
After the kids are done with their line hunt ,
hit enter 4 xs and each time they will be
revealed.
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Super Squircles

• This painting is called Color Study. Can you
  find the geometric combination in it?
• (Hit enter)
• Yes! There are several circles inside each
  other. All the circles are inside a square. And
  many squares are inside a rectangle!
• Now it is your turn to paint music like
  Kandinsky!

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Art EDventures Sample
Class Squircles
We will turn on some tunes and each one of you
will paint a deliciously colorful watercolor
squircle! What are squircles? Whycircles
inside a square piece of paper! Then well put
all our squircles together to make a class
Kandinsky!
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Project Art EDventures

• Choose a color copy of a Kandinsky circle.
• Grab a white square of wet/dry media paper.
• Get a rectangular box of watercolor paints.
• Fill both your round cups with water.

• Listen to the music and have fun!
• Before you begin, sign your name then Draw the
  Paw so others know it is a PTA Art EDventures
  creation.

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Supply List

• Class Kit of Crayola watercolor paints with
  brush.
• Wet/Dry Media Paper- cut into 6 x 6 squares.
• Water Bowls and Cups. Place the small cup inside
  the large bowl and fill both with water. Tell
  the kids to use the inside cup for dirty water
  and the outside cup for clean water.
• Paper Towels- show the kids how they can use the
  paper towel to clean their brushes between
  colors.
• Laminate-please laminate all your squircles
  before displaying. You may use the laminating
  machine in the copy room.
• Black Roll Paper- to mount your class Kandinsky!
• TIP-Have the kids paint their squircle starting
  from the inside out like a target. This seems to
  help keep keep them from smearing the paint a bit
  more than usual!

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G.P.S. Ties
MKG1 Students will correctly name simple two and
three dimensional figures, and recognize them in
the environment.a.Recognize and name the
following basic two-dimensional figures
triangles, rectangles, squares, and
circles.b.Recognize and name the following
three-dimensional figures spheres (balls) and
cubes.c. Observe concrete objects in the
environment and represent the objects using basic
shapes, such as drawing a representation of a
house using a square together with a triangle for
the roof.d. Combine basic shapes into basic and
more complicated shapes, and will decompose basic
shapes into combinations of basic shapes.e.
Compare geometric shapes and identify
similarities and differences of the following two
and three-dimensional shapes triangles,
rectangles, squares, circles, spheres, and cubes.
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Art EDventuresMade possible with your donations
to S.H.E.s PTA

• Dear Mom, Dad or Caretaker,
• I took an Art EDventure today called Super
  Squircles. What is a squircle you ask? Its
  Art Edventures way of making learning about
  geometric combinations fun! Squircles are
  circles painted inside a square piece of paper!
• We learned about an artist from Russia named
  Wassily Kandinsky. Then we went hunting for
  shapes, lines and colors in his paintings.
• Ask me about my fun watercolor project! I
  painted a squircle of my very own. Then we put
  them all together to make a class version of a
  Kandinsky painting.
• Wassily Kandinsky Color Study-Square
  With Concentric Circles

• Dear Mom, Dad or Caretaker,
• I took an Art EDventure today called Super
  Squircles. What is a squircle you ask? Its
  Art Edventures way of making learning about
  geometric combinations fun! Squircles are
  circles painted inside a square piece of paper!
• We learned about an artist from Russia named
  Wassily Kandinsky. Then we went hunting for
  shapes, lines and colors in his paintings.
• Ask me about my fun watercolor project! I
  painted a squircle of my very own. Then we put
  them all together to make a class version of a
  Kandinsky painting.
• Wassily Kandinsky Color Study-Square
  With Concentric Circles