"I think this has a lot of emotion in it! What were you thinking about?"

2nd graders Explore Emotion through Color

This week our 2nd graders thought about color and emotions associated with that color; such as blue equals sad or yellow helps us feel cheerful.  As a class we viewed several works of art and found we did not agree what each color meant.

They learned about Abstract Expressionist, Marc Rothko who challenged their thinking that each color could mean more than one emotions based on experience. 

Students thought about their emotions and drew fields of color based on their emotions. 

They blended pastels to create new colors and asked why Rothko's paintings are called "fields of color." One astute student remarked "I think it's because when I look at the ground from an airplane it looks like fields of color." 

This student is responding to her work. 

Can you guess what emotions I was thinking about? 

Come enjoy more work like this in the halls of Rose Park.