Kandinsky Lesson Plan In Four Parts: Part Three, Aesthetics

Part Three

Aesthetics Lesson: Kandinsky                                                    

What is aesthetics?

  • The definition of aesthetics can be understood through this video:

  • As you heard, there are several component to aesthetics and several questions that need to be asked when looking at a creation. 
The assignment...
  • After learning what aesthetics is, your assignment will be answering two sets of questions to further understand what aesthetics mean in the world of art. For the second set of questions, you will choose a Kandinsky to use as your reference for the questions.

The questions that will need to be answered for this assignment are as follows:

                Part one questions:

    1. How would you define fine art? Commercial art? Or just a created work?
    2. Does art matter to you? Why or why not?
    3. Do you think that for something to be art, it must have an element of beauty?
    4. Do you think that aesthetics beauty changes culture to culture? Why or why not?
    5. Do you think naturally found objects, such as a stone, sunset, or flower, can be considered art? why or why not?
    6. How much do you think someone's individual eye and experience effect someone's aesthetic experience?

                Part two, first choose a painting:

1.

Vasily Kandinsky, Upward, October 1929. Oil on cardboard, 27 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches (70 x 49 cm)

TITLE: UPWARD, DATE: OCTOBER 1929, MEDIUM: OIL ON CARDBOARD, DIMENSIONS: 27 1/2 X 19 1/4 INCHES (70 X 49 CM)


2.

Painting with Houses by Wassily Kandinsky remains in Amsterdam's modern art museum 
Title: Painting with Houses, Year:1909, Medium: Oil on canvas, Measurements: 38.2 × 51.6" (97.0 × 131.0 cm)

3.
Moderation (1940) by Wassily Kandinsky
Title: Moderation, Year: 1940, Medium: Oil on canvas,  Size: 39.4 × 25.6" (100.0 × 65.0 cm)
4.
Composition #223 (picture with tops) (1919) by Wassily Kandinsky
Title: Composition #223 (picture with tops), Year: 1919, Medium: Oil on canvas, Measurements:  49.6 × 37.4" (126.0 × 95.0 cm)
      1. Do you think that this work is a piece of art? Why or why not?
      2. What is your emotional response, if you had one, to the artwork? Why do you think you reacted to it in that way?
      3. Why do you think this specific work matters, or why not? 
      4. What kind of emotional response, if you had one, did you have to this work?
      5. Why did you choose the piece that you did?
      6. Do you like the piece that you chose? Why or why not?
      7. What role do you think the elements of art have in terms of the aesthetics?
      8. What role do you think the principles of design have in terms of the aesthetics?
      9. How has your personal journey in your life have an impact on how you view this piece?
      10. Any last thoughts?

    Please take you time in listening to the video, and fully understand what role aesthetics has in art.

    These questions are due at the beginning of class tomorrow, and will follow with a class discussion on what we discovered.

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