8th Grade: The Sound of Music - Using music to create an abstract design using the elements of harmony, rhythm, and pattern in colored pencil with the Artist - Wassily Kandinsky (2-7-2011)

Warm UP:

Write!

Write about a song you have heard recently. How did it make you feel? What was it about? Did it tell a story? Tell me about all of these things and remember to do it in paragraph form.

Vocab:

Abstract
alternating rhythm
asymmetrical balance
rhythm

Reading:
p. 76-77

GLE:

Students this week you will being using The Sound of Music by using music to create an abstract design using the elements of harmony, rhythm, and pattern in colored pencil in the style of the Artist - Wassily Kandinsky. 

Artist of the week: 

Wassily Kandinsky

Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
In 1896, he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Ažbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914, after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

Today's Mission:

SKETCH!

Take the piece of music you described to me when you first came into the classroom and look at the images of Wassily Kandinsky as inspiration. I want you to sketch out an abstract image using shapes, forms, and lines that tells the story of your piece of music.