I do not understand a lot of Abstract art of today, but when I was teaching primary school aged children in Art we had to study some famous artists for the National Curriculum.
One of the most successful for them to copy or use as a base for their own art design was Mondrian whos based his work on squares and rectangles and the colours, blue, red, yellow, black and white
We also looked at Wassily Kadinsky paintings and they really enjoyed them too. He was a musician inspired by marks connected to music and colours by feelings in the soul on listening to music
This painting is called On White 1923
I absolutely love Kandinsky and Miro. beautiful !!!!
ReplyDeleteOh I'm a HUGE Kandinsky fan!!! :D
ReplyDeleteYes, I can remember my kids studying abstract art at Primary School and thinking what a great idea it was
ReplyDeleteTO my shame I haven't heard of either artist, you have educated me today thanks,
ReplyDeleteMiró the artist is a favourite of mine; I think every town and city I have visited in Spain has a Street or Avenue dedicated to Gabriel Miró and another to Doctor Fleming and I always assumed that Gabriel was the painter. I now know I was wrong and the painter's name was Juan and Gabriel was a writer!
ReplyDeleteI bet the kids did some nice versions of their own x
ReplyDeleteMy crafting is always filed under abstract :)
ReplyDeleteGreat post!
I also worked with these Artists for the national curriculum. We had great fun.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I hadn't heard of either. I don't know much about abstract art. I had fun looking for something today.
ReplyDeleteYes I remember doing Mondrian with my Year 2 class.
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