What do all these drawings have in common?

Can you name any of the techniques used?

Explain

Learning Focus:• To experiment with different types of line

Outcomes• Individual line experiments to music • Continuous line drawing

Wassily Kandinsky1866-1944

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Kandinsky's early paintings were landscapes that were heavily influenced by Impressionist artists but around 1909 Kandinsky began to think that painting didn't need a particular subject, but that shapes and colours alone could be art.

The shapes he was most interested in were the circle, triangle, and the square. He thought the triangle would cause aggressive feelings, the square calm feelings, and the circle spiritual feelings.

The artist Wassily Kandinsky believed that colours, lines and shapes affect our feelings and emotions in the same way that music can. You know how a slow sad song makes you feel down and a pop song with a happy, fast beat makes you want to dance? Well Kandinsky believed that creating a painting is like composing music.

‘Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul’.

Key words: Line Quality of line Accuracy Expressive

Line In the rows below, experiment with different types of line in response to the music

Lesson 3 Starter Create

Key words: Line Quality of line Continuous Line

Main activityContinuous Line Produce a Continuous line drawing from images of sweets

Lesson 3 Starter

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