Wassily Kandinsky

Georgia O’Keeffe was born in 1887 and became a well-known artist for her enlarged and close-up flowers. One of my favorite pieces of hers is the Black Iris dated in 1926 with oil on canvas. O’Keeffe was influenced by the work of Wassily Kandinsky, oriental scroll painting, and she found Native American art as inspiring as Renaissance art (Potter). I believe what sparked the love for this style of painting was that she wanted to surprise everyone and make even the busiest person stop and see what…

with the color blue, or the letter A with red. This does not mean that they literally ‘see’ blue-colored 5s. In the image, the 2s would ‘pop’ out and be visible instantly to a synaesthete than a normal person. Chromesthesia: Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (who had chromesthesia) believed in the expression of inner and essential feelings in art, rather than the representation of façades. He went to a concert and created a painting based on what he saw while listening to the concert. He could…

Social Identity Theory, known otherwise as SIT, is a principle proposed by Tajfel and Turner in the 1970s. The study aimed to explain intergroup behaviour and the situational factors within a model of behaviour. At its core, the theory consists of four interrelated concepts: social categorization, the tendency to categorize individuals into in-groups (we/us) and out-groups (they/them); category accentuation (social comparison), the exaggeration of intergroup differences and intragroup…

this specific term was used to refer to German Expressionism in the magazine Der Sturm. (Hess, 2005) The word ‘abstract expressionism’ made its first use in the United States in 1929, with the discussion in relation to the artworks produced by Wassily Kandinsky. (Hess,…

In Italy the monuments, statues, and even the houses on the corners scream of past lives and stories, the raw emotions and struggles of times before us. Italy has the mindset or at least the outward appearance of seeming to be steeped in the arts, but is this really the case? Do all the Italians care about the Fine Arts? After having lived with and among them for three weeks, it would be safe to say that there are those who do in fact revel in the arts and fully enjoy being surrounded by them,…

Claude Monet once wrote in a letter, “everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it” (Monet). Dedicating nearly 70 years of his life to his work, Monet pioneered his way into the art world in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. Using his various studies, he was able to become an art innovator with the Impressionism movement. In this paper I will argue how…

Expressionism: Expressionism was a modernist movement mainly in poetry and painting, and was originally started at the beginning of the 20th century in germany before the first world was, For example Edward Munch 1893 'The scream of 1893' Which inspired most Expressionist artists(a german artist) However it is more of a style than a movement. The typical reason is to present the world from perspective. Secondly is because it gives of a sense of different moods, and is meant to give off some…

My Opinion on Colours Written by: Nesta 7T “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul” ~ Wassily Kandinsky Can you imagine what life would be without colour? Thinking of it gives me chills of a nightmare. Well in “The Giver”, pretty much all the people in Jonas’s community can’t see, or even know of colour. In my opinion, being able to see colour is an extremely remarkable, and is an important physical trait that most humans have. It is important in things such as physical…

The Bauhaus School of Design was founded in 1919 in the city of Weimar by Walter Gropius, a German architect. The Bauhaus school was created to combine the arts and crafts, technology and architecture disciplines to reach a common goal to unify creativity and the manufacturing objects, building and art. Walter Gropius decided to combine two of his schools, the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts, into what he called the Bauhaus. He believed that by training the…

(Interior at Petworth, 1837), Van Gogh (Wheat Field with Crows, 1890) and, expressionism was made famous by two groups in pre-war Germany: Die Brucke (Dresden/Berlin) and Der Blaue Reiter (Munich), led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866- 1944) respectively. The main contribution of expressionism to "modern art" was to popularize the idea of subjectivity in painting and sculpture, and to show that representational art may legitimately include subjective…