Arthur Dove in Warm & Cool Colors

• Arthur Dove was an American abstract painter before the heyday of American abstract painters like Jackson Pollock or Jasper Johns. His pieces often resemble landscapes and have repeating motifs like rolling horizon lines and concentric circles vaguely resembling a sun or moon. 
• Students made two pictures in the style of Arthur Dove with horizon lines and concentric circles. We learned about the way colors can be grouped based on the impression of temperature they can convey: blue, green and purple for cool, red, orange and yellow for warm. They colored their pieces in these contrasting palettes to be shown as companion pieces.