Abstract Art 

Some of the year levels have spent the last few Art lessons exploring and creating abstract artworks. 

Rothko 

Foundation students looked at the Abstract Expressionist artworks by Mark Rothko. He wanted to paint human emotions. Rothko thought that the greatest paintings were the ones that captured a sense of stillness, and that is what he tried to do. He painted rectangles with fuzzy edges. Foundation students used these as inspiration to create these oil pastel pictures – they blended the pastels with oil to create a similar effect. A self portrait was added so the students were a part of the artworks!

Kandinsky

Foundation students also looked at the artworks by Wassily Kandinsky, who was a Russian artist who was famous for creating abstract pictures filled with lots of colours and shapes.He said that good art does not have to look like something in a photo. Abstract art can be beautiful too. Next, inspired by different abstract pieces,  they listened to classical music while they created their art - just as Kandinsky liked to do - stamping shapes with everyday objects and adding colour with soft pastels. 

Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay was born in the Ukraine in 1885. She studied art in Germany and Paris, where she lived later and met her husband Robert Delaunay. The Delaunay couple were pioneers of Orphism, an art movement that was inspired by Cubism but involved bright colours. Bold colours were placed next to each other and lots of geometric shapes were used. She was the first living female artist to have an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris in 1964. Year 3 students created a piece full of shapes which they then painted by mixing their own fantastic colours.