Wassily Kandinsky

materialism and abstraction in Section VI, Paragraph 18 of Kandinsky’s essay “Concerning the Spiritual in Art.” Here, Kandinsky comments on those “rhomboidal composition[s] made up of a number of human figures [which are] an absolute necessity to the composition,” criticizing the figures’ material appeal for “directly weakening [the composition’s] abstract appeal.” While Kandinsky correctly…

These artist wanted a way to express their feelings, so they used colors in places that it would not usually go. Vasili Kandinsky’s “Black Lines No. 189” made in 1913 is an example of this type of art. Kandinsky also started a group called “Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)” in 1911 that was an important part of the movement. Favism started in that early 1900s as a way for artist to use colors that were not true to life. One of the leading…

Vasya Kandinsky is a young Russian boy who spends all his days learning how to be a proper boy with great discipline. As a young boy he practiced things like playing the piano. He studied bookfuls of math, science, and history. He sat stiff and straight at dressed-up dinners while the grown-ups talked and talked and talked. Until one day, his aunt gave him a small wooden paint box that would magically change his life forever! The Noisy Paint box is a Children's non-fiction literature book by…

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky: Biography Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. He was born in Moscow, the Russian empire on 16 December 1866. He is one of the first artist to create an abstract piece. During his youth (1866-1896), The Metamorphosis: Kandinsky graduated from grekov Odessa art school. Before he focused on art, he was studying law and economics in the University of Moscow, which he later gave up at the age of 30. Kandinsky’s enthusiasm in colour…

First Abstract Watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky, “Yes You Can” by Donnie McClurkin, “Climb ‘Til Your Dreams Come True” by Helen Steiner Rice, and The Secret Life of an American Teenager. All four of these pieces of art share the common theme that when you focus on possibilities, new opportunities will arise. Focusing on possibilities creates new opportunities, and the previously mentioned art pieces are similar as they all share the same idea, or theme. Wassily Kandinsky was…

(The art story foundation, 2016) They published their manifesto in 1906 (The art story foundation, 2016) This movement began in 1905 to 1920 and has spread across Europe and continued to influence and inspire ambitious change into abstraction where Kandinsky created non-objective paintings that were not representational or figurative (The art story foundation, 2016). This movement influenced and helped inform Abstract Expressionism (The art story foundation, 2016). It also influenced German Art…

Perhaps the greatest meditation on how art serves the soul, came in 1910, when Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky published The Art of Spiritual Harmony, an exploration of the deepest and most authentic motives for making art. A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. It explains Kandinsky’s own theory of painting and crystallizes the great ideas that were…

right angle to the main axis. Pg 174 CLS- The house is very concrete and extended rooflines, flat fields with geometric decorative design. There are layers to the structure with simplified mass and a open working area to have freedom. 2. 1903, Kandinsky, Wassily, Blue Rider, Russian, Der Blaue Reiter. TXT- He focuses on expressionistic works of art without subjects being representational and only on colors with shapes that help bring total abstraction in his compositions. He believes in the…

However, one could argue that a personal crisis was the catalyst for this change. Firstly, Kandinsky faced a crisis of creativity, in particular the so-called freedom of it. If creativity is not entirely free subjectively – if it remains tied to some form of objective obligation – is it truly creative? Secondly, what was the purpose of art now that…

WALTER CRANE | ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT, THE UNITED KINGDOM The Arts and Crafts movement originated in England, around the second part of the 19th century, and was birthed out of a few artists’ revulsion towards the industrialisation of the world– and consequently, art– around them. The Industrial Revolution and its mass-machinery had brought efficiency into the art-making realm, but had sacrificed craftsmanship and beauty in the process. This caused much dissatisfaction launched a movement that…