Wassily Kandinsky1866-1944

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and made them sing with all the intensity I could

Color is the keyboard , the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

• 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.

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

During the Industrial Revolution the camera was invented. People questioned why needed artists, when you could just take a picture.

The Blue Riders were a group of artist that tired to tell people that art was not about replicating something. It is about emotion, feeling, spirit and meaning. The started to create pieces of artwork that did not resemble anything.

This type of art become known as abstract art. As more artists started to make abstract art, they began to believe that only people educated in art had an opinion. This mind set brought on an era of art known as MODERNISM.

People had a hard time discussing and

critiquing abstract art.

A group of people called the

FORMALISTS create 15 vocabulary terms

known as the ELEMENTS &

PRINCIPLES OF ART to help critique art.

• Kandinsky carefully plans each painting to express, through the colors and abstract forms, exactly the feelings and spiritual ideas he wishes to communicate.

Old Town II

Gabriele Munter

Gabriele Munter Painting in Kallmunz

Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel

Picture XVI; The Great Gate of Kiev

Improvisation 26 (Oars) Oil on canvas, 1912 42.1" x 38.2

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

Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)

1913; Oil on canvas, 145 x 119.7cm (57 x 47 in);

Small Pleasures 1913

Composition VII

To The Unknown Voice

Wassily Kandinsky, White Line, No. 232, oil on canvas, 1920.

Composition VIII 1923

On White II 1923

Wassily Kandinsky, Black and Violet, oil on canvas, 1923.

Contrasting Sounds

1924

Yellow, Red, Blue 1925

Wassily Kandinsky, Several Circles, oil on canvas, 1926.

Wassily Kandinsky, Softened Construction, oil on canvas, 1927.

Red Oval

On Points

Dominant Curve

Decisive Pink

Capricious

Around the Circle

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition X, oil on canvas, 1939.

Composition: Storm Guided student questions

What colors do you see?

What colors 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?