Fourth Grade Non-Representational Designs

These simple, but interesting works were created after our students studied the differences between representational, abstract, and non-representational art. Representational being the kind of art that shows objects that are easily recognizable, such as a portrait or a landscape. Non-representational art shows no ojects at all but is more concerned with lines, colors, and shapes (the above artworks are examples of this type of art.) Abstract art may start with recognizable objects, but they are in some way distorted or changed. Think of a portrait by Picasso, for example, in which the nose and mouth and eyes may be in the wrong places!