Abstract Art

A few weeks ago we had an opportunity to learn about art. I decided to start with abstract art. We saw several different examples of abstract art work done by different artists. We had a discussion about a specific painting called "The City" by Fernand Leger. We looked at the painting and looked for shapes, colors, and different kinds of lines. We discussed how it made us feel and how we thought the artist was feeling. After we discussed, the children got to create their own art. The Leger piece was painted, but I wanted the kids to use construction paper for their assignment. They were assigned to make their own version of "The City" from their perspective. Afterwards, they each made up a name for their art and told us why they had chosen that name. They then had to pick out 3 important features from their artwork to highlight.

This picture shows the class hard at work. How interesting that some children created better artwork by standing!
This is a picture of "The City" by Fernand Leger that we discussed.

I wanted to highlight each child's work on this posting so I displayed the artwork outside our classroom above our writing standards board. This is the artwork of Aubrey, Alex, Jack B., Josie, and Jake. (You can also see our fantastic brochure reports underneath our artwork!)

This is the artwork of Kinsey, Ryan, Jack L., Sammie, and Hailey.

This is the artwork of Luke, Trey, Casey, and Thai.

This is the artwork of Michael, Nathan, Ian, and Mikayla.