Visualizing Music

Visualizing Music- a project exploring Wassily Kandinsky's paintings that he made as a synesthete. Wassily Kandinsky quit his job as a lawyer and became an artist when he first heard this opera (an excerpt)

Creative challenge: Create an artwork inspired by music.

SEL message: We all have unique abilities and we have a different perspective than others.

Introduction

Meet the artist

Video for teachers modeling an early part of the lesson

Video for teachers modeling later portions of the lesson

Day to day lesson plan sequence, required supplies and resources. Also, correlation to CCSS and National Core Arts Standards

This is the artist statement frame page.

Students work with a partner to check that the project criteria are complete.

This slideshow documents Kandinsky's evolution from representational to abstract painting.

PBS News Hour story on synesthesia (6:14 length)

This exercise helps students envision words and concepts with music.

This exercise helps students practice using lines, shapes, and colors to represent the emotions in two pieces of music.

Fourteen musical selections along with QR Codes to display with student art work so observers can hear the music that inspired the art

This is the space students draft their initial impressions of the 12 pieces of music.