OAEA 2014 Kandinsky, Cubes, & Conceptual Art

PDF of Geometry in Art - Sol LeWitt Style (Grade 4)
PDF of Geometry in Art - Grade 2

Grade 2 related Pins ---  http://www.pinterest.com/sarahshu/art-ed-geometry/

Grade 4 related Pins ---  http://www.pinterest.com/sarahshu/plain-4/   

 

Kandinsky, Cubes, and Conceptual Art 

in the Elementary Setting

11:00-11:50AM -- Taft A -- Gr. K-5 

Make connections using geometry math standards in the art room! This session will share
projects, photos and more related to two geometry in art grants. Try out some of the
projects at the workshop!

Ohio Art Education Association - Professional Development Conference

Columbus 2014 -- November 6, 7,8

 

This presentation is based on ArtsinStark (Stark County Arts Council) grants I received in 2013 and 2014 - both related to creating artworks targeted to address specific geometry content.  

For the 2013 grant, I worked with grade 2 students with lessons including rotational symmetry designs, parquetry blocks (identifying and manipulating shapes), paper quilt piecing project, and a Kandinsky-based Seeing Geometry in Art lesson.  The 2nd Grade Math Objectives in Geometry we targeted included: Draw shapes having an even number of angles or sides; Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes; Partition a rectangle into squares and count the squares; Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal parts; Describe shapes using the words halves, thirds, half of, third of, etc.; and a review the concepts of symmetry and geometric vs. organic shapes.

Post by Mrs. Shumaker's Art Classes.

            


This year, for the 2014 grant, I worked with my grade 4 students using visual arts to help teach math concepts, again specifically targeting geometry.   Our annual field trip to the Akron Art Museum includes their "geometry-centric" tour, and there are a few conceptual artists Sol LeWitt pieces there -- including a quite large multi-colored "drawing" (painting) in the main lobby.   

We learned about LeWitt prior to the tour, concentrated on his pieces during the tours, and then completed Sol LeWitt style works back in the classroom.  Some pieces were created individually, some in collaborative groups, and some were designed and then crafted by another "student draftsman" similar to how LeWitt worked.   

We paid particular attention to the CCS in Math including drawing and identifying lines and angles; classifying shapes by properties of their lines and angles; drawing points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, and perpendicular and parallel lines; applying area and perimeter formulas; and measuring angles.  Students drafted drawings based on directions by Sol LeWitt, created their own directions to have another student draft, worked in groups to design and create murals, and built multiple cube structures similar to LeWitt's sculptures. We discussed Conceptual Art almost weekly, with particular attention to the question of who is the artist of someone designs, but someone else drafts it?

Post by Mrs. Shumaker's Art Classes.