wassily kandinsky abstract expressionist musical representations
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WASSILY KANDINsKYAbstract Expressionist
MUSICAL REPRESENTATIONS
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Asymmetrical Balance
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What principles of design are
evident here?
What happens to the shapes when they overlap?
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What type of music inspired this?
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"Colour is the key. The 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."
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Wassily Kandinsky1866-1944
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• I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and made them sing with all the intensity I could
• "Colour is the key. The 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."
• Wassily Kandinsky
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• Born in Moscow, Russia in 1866.
• Was a lecturer in Law at University,(1895) in Russia but gave up his job to study painting in Munich.
• He was a member of the avante-garde painting group called the Blue Rider. Show his abstract style of paintings with the group.
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• Kandinsky was very spiritual about his art making.
• He was commented as saying, That his belief in art is based on the harmony of color and form.
• He believed that every color had an inner voice and a meaning.
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• He carefully plans each painting to express, through the colours and abstract forms, exactly the feelings and spiritual ideas he wishes to communicate.
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Wassily Kandinsky. Volga Song. 1906. Tempera on cardboard. 49 x 66 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
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Russian Woman in a Landscape (1906)
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Old Town II
He was able to paint realistically
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Gabriele Munter
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Gabriele Munter Painting in Kallmunz
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Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel
Here you can see Kandisnky began to break away from realism, breaking this down more into shapes and colors.
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Picture XVI; The Great Gate of Kiev
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Improvisation 26 (Oars) Oil on canvas, 1912 42.1" x 38.2
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Study for Painting with White Lines (Bild mit weissen Linien), 1913. Watercolor, india ink, and pencil on paper, 15 11/16 x 14 1/8 inches
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Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)
1913; Oil on canvas, 145 x 119.7cm (57 x 47 in);
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Small Pleasures 1913
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Composition VII
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To The Unknown Voice
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Wassily Kandinsky, White Line, No. 232, oil on canvas, 1920.
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Composition VIII 1923
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On White II 1923
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Wassily Kandinsky, Black and Violet, oil on canvas, 1923.
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Contrasting Sounds
1924
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Yellow, Red, Blue 1925
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Wassily Kandinsky, Several Circles, oil on canvas, 1926.
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Wassily Kandinsky, Softened Construction, oil on canvas, 1927.
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Red Oval
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On Points
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Dominant Curve
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Decisive Pink
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Capricious
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Around the Circle
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Wassily Kandinsky, Composition X, oil on canvas, 1939.
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Composition: Storm Guided student questions
What colours do you see?
What colours do you see the most of?
What types of lines do you see?
Does anything in this painting remind you of a storm?
How does this painting make you feel?
Is there any place in this painting that seems restful to you? How?
Would you like to be standing in the middle of this painting?
What do you think it would feel like? Why?