SCULPTURES and COMPLEMENTARY COLORS!

The Kindergarten art students are continuing to explore the workings of the

COLOR WHEEL.

Along with their knowledge about

 Primary and Secondary Colors,

 they are also learning about

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS.

Each color on the color wheel has a COMPLEMENTARY COLOR

which is located directly across from (opposite) that color on the wheel.

These colors "say nice things" about each other and "work well together".

You can see the different combinations of

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS

 on the color wheels belows...

RED and GREEN

PURPLE and YELLOW

BLUE and ORANGE

With this color theory in mind, the students were asked to create a

PAPER SCULPTURE

(interesting to look at from ALL sides)

using strips of one color, along with a base of its Complementary Color.

They had to come up with ways to make the strips pop up off the paper when gluing them such as

 twisting, folding, rolling, crumpling or bending.

They also worked the strips

under, over, around, and through each other.

The finished sculptures were hung side by side...

to create one LARGE SCULPTURE!

WOW!

Artist: PIET MONDRIAN

The Kindergarten art students

 have been learning the names and uses of five types of

 LINES: horizontal, vertical, diagonal, zigzag, and wavy.

They have also been discovering things about the

 PRIMARY COLORS (red, blue, yellow)

 such as where they are located on the color wheel,

and how they can be mixed together to make other colors.

Piet Mondrian

(1872-1944)

was a Dutch artist

who worked exclusively with vertical and horizontal lines,

 and primary colors in his paintings.

In fact, it is said that he painted for thirty years and never made a curved line!

Of course we had to give this a try!

*Composition (Blue, Red, and Yellow), 1930, Oil on canvas

Each student

began by gluing strips of black paper both vertically and horizontally on the paper.

The ends of the strips had to go either to the edge of the paper, or stop when they reached another strip.

Overlapping their lines in this way created squares and rectangles.

These shapes were perfect for painting,

which they did using only the primary colors.

Like Mondrian, they balanced their paintings by leaving some shapes white throughout.

Artist: HANS HOFMANN

The Kindergarten students studied the artwork of German born artist

HANS HOFMANN.

(1880-1966)

This artist liked to explore colors in what he called his

"push-pull" theory 

using WARM and COOL colors.

The painted shapes in Hofmann's paintings show how

cool colors seem to recede into the background

while warm colors work their way forward in a painting.

We began our Hans Hofmann studies by painting 9x11 papers a variety of warm and cool colors.

Those papers were then cut into random size rectangles

and arranged and glued onto individual papers filling them to the edges.

Care was taken in placing warm colors and cool colors together.

Once dried, each students work of art was place side by side

on the round wall in the Kindergarten wing...

to create one large masterpiece!

WOW!