Get students to research some background to Kandinsky’s ideas, using the Internet or art department/library resources. They could present their findings in PowerPoint using a projector. [This could be set as ‘homework’, prior to the start of the project.]
Ask some groups to give a class presentation. Choose a few which complement one another to give a balanced picture.
For this project, there are three areas we need to consider:
Kandinsky’s use of colour
Kandinsky’s use of shape
the importance of the canvas
Kandinsky outlined his theories of painting in the books Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane.
In these books, Kandinsky reveals how and why he used shapes and colours in the way he did in his paintings. He also explores the parallels between abstract art and musical composition in considerable depth.
