“I seek a fundamental universal pattern in all art and nature.”
–Kazuo Nakamura
For this project we learned about the Canadian artist, Kazuo Nakamura and his commitment to abstraction and modernism. Nakamura used simple structures and monochromatic colours.
We completed our entire project without using a traditional paint brush. Our students learned how to create their own scraped backgrounds using old gift cards and then used cardboard for their abstract lines. It was interesting to see how different everyone’s creations turned out…