Third and Fourth Grade Op Art

So I started off the year for third and fourth grade doing an Op Art project, which turned out quite interesting.  We talked about how line, shape and color were all important in the Op Art movement  and looked at the works of Victor Vasarely.    

Third grade started of their projects by drawing a wavy grid across their paper and filled each of those boxes with an X that stretched from corner to corner.  Then we discussed warm and cool colors and how to create pattern and repetition with color.  Students were to choose either a warm or cool color scheme and colored in their triangles with markers.  They were to choose a color for all the left triangles in every box and so on.

 

 

 

Fourth grade started out their Op Art projects using a ruler to

4th Grade studied this work by Vasarely

 create a grid then tracing some circles over their grid lines.  We discussed how to create a repeating pattern with black and white and talked about how the pattern would change every time a circle line went through one of the boxes.  We looked at Victor Vasarely's work Zebra which showed how the pattern changes.  I had some mixed results with the creating the black and white pattern stage but in the end the work was looking pretty great. Students colored in their white spaces using complementary colors, their backgrounds one color and the circles another, but I think they look better without the color.