7th grade: Non-objective Paintings and Color Wheel

Seventh graders did an amazing job demonstrating that art does not have to be a recognizable subject to be a valid piece of artwork.
Non-objective art, unlike Realism, does not represent objects known in physical nature. The artwork creates an interesting composition using the elements of art (line, shape, color, texture, form, value, and space).
 Example of non-objective artwork by Wassily Kandinsky:

Wasilly Kandinsky – “Yellow, Red, Blue” – Oil on canvas – 1925.  “Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with ‘reality, next to the real world.”  “There is no must in art because art is free.”

Students were giving a list of requirements before they began. Then, they sketched out a few ideas to practice their own compositions. The students then transferred the final pick to their canvas.

• Three circles, two need to intersect
• One geometric shape
• One organic shape
• One complex shape
• Three different types of lines
• Finish by painting lines black to bring unity to artwork
• Using only the Primary colors, show sections that are painted red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. (They could invent other colors too, if time allowed.)

I love recycling when every we can, so our canvas were from cardboard boxes.
So many variations within limitations. Great job!