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Busy Things hosts over 1600 curriculum-linked activities and games for early years and primary aged children. A school subscription also includes lots of features and tools for teachers that promise to save planning time.  Take a free trial to have a proper play or book a demo here. 

Create an Abstract Expressionist painting

Use the tools and colours to create your own abstract picture.

Just create a painting or choose the template that allows you to write an evaluation of your work as well.



Discussion points

  • ‘Abstract’ means not illustrating an actual thing in a recognisable way. It is the opposite of ‘figurative’.
  • ‘Expression’ is the way that internal ideas and emotions are communicated.
  • Abstract Expressionism was the first art movement to be centred in the USA rather than Europe.
  • It developed after the Second World War in the 1940s. But abstract art had already been pioneered by Russian Wassily Kandinsky 3 decades before.
  • Famous Abstract Expressionists included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Richard Pousette-Dart and Alexander Calder working in the 40.

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Your free trial includes

  • access to 1600+ of fun educational activities and games
  • Create an area just for your class (school version)
  • Track activities and send feedback (school version)
  • Customisable games and activities targeting core maths, literacy and phonics skills
  • Creative activities working with colours, shapes and sounds
  • Busy Code - a whole suite of activities and guides for teaching children how to code
  • A custom phonics and maths worksheet maker
  • Curriculum-links and activity search
  • Pupil timelines - see what your pupils have been doing
  • Set assignments and collate results
  • Play on desktop computers, laptops and tablets

 

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The family version allows up to 5 children to play at once.

 

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