1. Abstraction Mrs. Fox

3. Art that uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

4. Line – one continuous mark…. Shape – line that is closed (2D) Color – Hue Texture – surface quality Form – Shape with value added (3D) Value – Lightness nor Darkness of a shape/form Space – Positive/Negative

6. Born: December 4, 1866 Moscow, Russia Died: December 13, 1944 France Educated as a lawyer – law professor until he was 30 years old when he became an artist and art professor Work started out representational and moved to abstraction Music theory was the basis for his abstract paintings

8. Late 19 th century Art Movement that used values of color and light to show their subjects rather than painting in fine detail

9. Fauvism: Post-Impressionism movement – known for the use of intense colors in a violent, uncontrolled way. The leader of the Fauves was Henri Matisse Matisse is known as the Master of Color or The Wild Beast (French for “Fauve”)

11. Bavarian Mountains with Village, Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on Canvas, Semi-Abstraction

12. Moscow I, Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on Canvas, Semi-Abstraction

13. Black and Violet, 1923, Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on Cardboard, Abstraction

14. Composition X, 1939, Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on Canvas, Abstraction