Pollock Inspired Murals

Our Transitional Primary students have been learning all about LINES.  They started the year off by representing horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines with tape.  On day one, they have started to  notice a variety of lines in some of artist Jackson Pollock's work, and described them as curvy, dotted, zig zag, wavy, jagged, and spiral. We also discussed how Pollock used his whole body to paint and how he used lines and colors to express how he felt.  Many of Pollock's paintings were  so enormous, he had to lay them on the floor to work on it and often painted from all four sides of his canvas.  Similarly, we worked large for this painting, as well as collaboratively, from all different spots around the table.  Students had to touch the side of the paper or connect their line to another one they saw.  To reinforce and build on our knowledge of lines, we finished off the class reading Lines That Wiggle, by Candice Whitman.  

Echo: Number 25, Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock in action.

The She Wolf, 1943  Jackson Pollock

Student Murals Inspired by Jackson Pollock and Abstract Art

On day two, we learned how primary colors are the only colors on the color wheel that cannot be made by mixing any two colors together.  We filled in the shapes of this mural by mixing the primary colors red, blue, and yellow to make secondary colors.  Additionally, we learned how ABSTRACT ART is when artists purposely use their imagination to create an artwork that does not look real and REALISTIC ART, is when artists create art to look like a photograph or something recognizable.  we examined The She-Wolf, by Jackson Pollock and categorized him as an ABSTRACT PAINTER, as well as our own murals as an abstract piece of art.