Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia on December 16, 1866. He grew up in the Odessa, Russia. Growing up he was able to enjoy music and learned to play the piano and the cello. He also took art lessons, where his love for colors began. Both music and colors would have a impact on his art later in life. Kandinsky went to college and became a law teacher in order to fulfill his parents wishes. When he was thirty, he decided to change careers and become a full time artist. He attended art school in Munich, Germany. At this point in his life, his art was influenced by painters like Claude Monet as well as music composers and philosophers. Kandinsky 's early paintings were landscapes that were influenced by Impressionist…

Looking Forward by Looking Back Composito IV, created by Wassily Kandinsky in 1911 is a vortex of swirling colors and thick black lines. The painting measures in at 62 7/8 x 98 5/8 inches. Looking closer at it I see that the paint is oil based which adds dimension and texture to it. I feel the weightiness of this painting. I sense the emotion, the expectations, and the memories that fill this piece. Kandinsky’s use of two heavy, black vertical lines separates the piece into to sections. On…

Kandinsky was born on December 4th, 1866 in Moscow, Russia. In 1871 he began his amateur painting career as well as in cello and piano. On Kandinsky's 30th birthday he chose to become a painter. Kandinsky`s style focused on the connection between color and form in order to create a pleasing and abstract look to the eyes. He would paint colorful shapes to express spirituality and human emotion. Kandinsky`s ideas influenced many artists and the Abstract Expressionist era that came after World…

The Life of Mr. Kandinsky Wassily (or Vassily) Kandinsky was born to his mother Lidia Ticheeva and father Vasily Kandinsky on December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia and at the age of five him and his family moved to Odessa. Kandinsky was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. He is best known for his abstract paintings and was part of the expressionism and abstract art movement in his lifetime. Kandinsky did not, however, just create art. As a young boy, he learned to play the…

Describing the artwork Title: The blue rider – 1903 Artist: Kandinsky Date: 1903 Medium: Oil on cardboard Size: 55 x 65 cm Created: the blue rider (German expression) - The artwork to be analysed in this essay is blue rider by Kandinsky, it was created by using oil on cardboard in 1903. - Created in a German expression style this artwork depicts landscape. - Kandinsky has selected to place the main subject in the right hand side. Analyse the technique used - The blue rider has been…

Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866, in Moscow, Russia, to musical parents Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant. When Kandinsky was about 5 years old, his parents divorced, and he moved to Odessa to live with an aunt, where he learned to play the piano and cello in grammar school, as well as study drawing with a coach. Even as a boy he had an intimate experience with art; the works of his childhood reveal rather specific color combinations, infused by his…

Wassily Kandinsky was one of many influential artists during the Expressionist Movement. This movement lasted 20 years, from 1905 to 1925. This time period holds few historical significances, which influenced expressionism very much so. The end of World War I left Europe in ruins. Many people fluttered to America to escape the warfare. Artists began to express happy thoughts through painting to hopefully bring joy into one's lives. Kandinsky's contribution of paintings filled with shapes and…

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…

He explored 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. His prewar masterpiece, Composition VII, finished in 1913, is filled with dynamic colors and forms leave very little in the way of recognizable imagery. And, according to Kandinsky, it is the…

movement is from the Classical Religious art to the symbolic, figurative Religious Abstract art. Religious Abstract artworks are created through the artist representation of a religious text or of a complex spiritual idea creating an evolving sub art movement. This is displayed throughout history from the first abstract religious painting by Hilma Kint to the use of traditional Japanese Medias by Makoto Fujimura to the unrecognisable representation of bible scriptures and human souls by Michel…