Looking At Art Search LOOKING AT ART: ART INVESTIGATIONS
Questions for Investigation - What do you notice about this work
of art? - The artist, Vasily Kandinsky, was not interested in
representing the real world in this painting, but instead
created his own separate world on the canvas by arranging shapes
and colors in ways that were meaningful to him. - Take a few
minutes to take a closer look at these shapes, then choose one
and give it a name. Share your shape names with the rest of the
class. What are the similarities and differences between them? -
Based on your observations and shape names, what kind of mood do
you think Kandinsky might have been trying to create in this
work of art? This art investigation can be used in conjunction
with the Angel Island Monuments lesson, featured on the Making
Art section of this site. Although Kandinsky was forced to leave
Germany in 1933 due to political pressures, he did not allow the
mood of desolation pervading war-torn Europe to enter the
paintings and watercolor