4th Grade Keith Haring Movement Figures

In 4th grade we have been learning about artist, Keith Haring. Haring was a very popular artist who created fun and colorful cartoon-like figures. His figures did not have features, but were filled with bold color and outline. His figures often looked as if they were dancing!

Students learned about Haring's life, inspirations, and legacy in the art world. In this lesson, they also learned about complementary colors! These are colors located across from each other on the color wheel. (red & green, yellow & purple, blue & orange!) Complementary colors, when put next to one another, are appear very bright!

In this project, students created their own Keith Haring figures depicting movement four times. For each figure, the student had to use a pair of complementary colors. The fourth box was a free choice and the student could use any set of colors to paint in their figure!

This project was so fun and made us want to dance!