1. Geometric shapes

2. Wassily Kandinsky Born: December 16, 1866 Moscow, Russia
Died: December 13, 1944
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

3. Wassily Kandinsky
Born Died

4. Geometric V. Organic shapes
Geometric being the ones that are the known shapes
circle, square, rectangle, triangle, trapezoid, etc.
Organic are more free form shapes and more found in nature.

6. How many shapes can you identify?

8. Composition 8 (1923)

9. VOCABULARY Circle Triangle Rectangle Square Polygon Half (1/2)
Third (1/3)
Fourth (1/4)

10. Practice Problems: Take out a sheet of paper and a writing utensil.
Draw a circle
Then, draw a circle in half.
Draw a circle in thirds and use primary colors to show answer.
Draw a rectangle in thirds.
Draw a square in fourths.
Draw a 5 squares in a rectangle.

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12. TIMELINE:
What does this timeline say about Wassily Kandinsky?