Kandinsky Circles and Colour Theory

As we have been learning about how other people think and feel, we took some time to explore how certain colours make us feel. Early on in the unit when we discussed feelings and emotions, we discovered that often the colours are tied together with certain feelings, such as RED = Anger, BLUE=Sad, etc. In our exploration of the element of colour, we have been looking at different types of colour schemes such as primary, secondary, warm and cool, and this week we learnt about complementary colours (those that are opposite each other on the colour wheel, such as red and green, blue and orange, as well as purple and yellow. To see how artists use these colours, we looked at some artwork by Wassily Kandinsky and also learnt about his extraordinary condition called synaesthesia, which enabled him to hear colours, and see sounds!!!

To further explore the relationship between the different colours, we created our own study of colours by making our own Kandinsky Circles to help explore the different colour schemes. Check out some of our work below!