Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich are both successive influential Russian painter that contributed to the art of abstraction through their distinctive use of colours. Thus both artists are acclaimed with their abstract works, they have dissimilar and coherent sensations for colours. Both artist used similar tones within their work and they all wanted to stimulate acoustic responds from their audience with their use of colour. However, Kandinsky hold a strong opinion towards the connection between the concept around “synesthesia” (sounds to colours) with “Spiritual awakening” 1 for his practice of colours, as shown in his oil on canvas “Composition VII” (1913). Whereas Malevich utilized colours to explore on his fascination around the principle of Zaumism,4 p2 as exemplified in his oil on canvas “Airplane Flying” (1915)
Despite Kandinsky and Malevich have contrasting interpretation of ways of using colours, the dominate adoption of warm colour；yellow and red and cold colour; blue shown in many of their paintings seems to be concord with both artist. Similarly, both artist intend to achieve …show more content…
For Kandinsky’s principles of colour the changes of displacement of colours in various directions and angles can alter the spiritual feelings towards the colours. Blue is concentric and represents the spiritual feelings, where yellow is external representing the bodily feelings.9 p36 Same for angle arrangements as Kandinsky summed up with his researches “The more acute the angle, the hotter it gets” contrarily the more obtuse the angle gets, the colour gradually lose its warmth and become colder. Clearly Kandinsky are very scientific about the way he uses colour. Whereas Malevich are searching for a more direct responds of the colour itself. Most of the colour in his work are solid and in geometrical
Despite Kandinsky and Malevich have contrasting interpretation of ways of using colours, the dominate adoption of warm colour；yellow and red and cold colour; blue shown in many of their paintings seems to be concord with both artist. Similarly, both artist intend to achieve …show more content…
For Kandinsky’s principles of colour the changes of displacement of colours in various directions and angles can alter the spiritual feelings towards the colours. Blue is concentric and represents the spiritual feelings, where yellow is external representing the bodily feelings.9 p36 Same for angle arrangements as Kandinsky summed up with his researches “The more acute the angle, the hotter it gets” contrarily the more obtuse the angle gets, the colour gradually lose its warmth and become colder. Clearly Kandinsky are very scientific about the way he uses colour. Whereas Malevich are searching for a more direct responds of the colour itself. Most of the colour in his work are solid and in geometrical