A surprise visitor to the classroom today.  Eloise and her family are looking after a 4 week old baby.  Poppy the Lamb came to school today to see where Eli spends all her days now that school is back from holidays.

From all accounts, Poppy was very well behaved and enjoyed her time meeting the children.  Eloise's mum was nursing Poppy when she came through to the Front Office and was almost asleep in her arms.  So cute.

"The children gave their impression of Kandinsky art work. "colour is the key. They eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically." KANDINSKY

One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky exploited the evocative interrelation between color and form to create an aesthetic experience that engaged the sight, sound, and emotions of the public. He believed that total abstraction offered the possibility for profound, transcendental expression and that copying from nature only interfered with this process. Highly inspired to create art that communicated a universal sense of spirituality, he innovated a pictorial language that only loosely related to the outside world, but expressed volumes about the artist's inner experience. His visual vocabulary developed through three phases, shifting from his early, representational canvases and their divine symbolism to his rapturous and operatic compositions, to his late, geometric and biomorphic flat planes of color.