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Wayne Thiebaud
Kandinsky
Rothko
O'Keeffe
Responding to the work of Wayne Thiebaud - cakes and donuts!
Students drew a piece of cake from observation and then added colour and pattern to create a 2D design in the style of Thiebaud's work. This was translated into a 3D cake.
Exhibition
Wayne Thiebaud: 'Cakes, they are glorious, they are like toys'....
Kandinsky
Students studied the artwork, style and details in Kandinsky's paintings. They listened to music in the same way Kandinsky worked, creating their own individual responses using shapes, layers of watercolour and black marker pen.
Wassily Kandinsky: 'Everything starts with a dot...'.
'Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world....'.
Rothko
Students responded to music, making marks and using colour to express an emotion. A detail of this was used to create an abstract Rothko inspired artwork in oil pastel.
Georgia O'Keeffe
As part of a project on 'nature', students studied the work of Georgia O'Keeffe and her fascination with painting large abstract details. Students drew from photographs and flowers from direct observation using a magnifying glass, learning to 'zoom in' on interesting details.
Georgia O'Keeffe: ' I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty'.
'I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could'.
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