Wassily Kandinsky
I applied streaks and blobs of colours onto the canvas with a palette knife and made them sing with all the intensity I could Colour 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
Russian Blue Riders
Spiritual Harmony
Careful Planning Practiced layout
"It was from the catalog I learned this was a haystack. I was upset I had not recognized it. I also thought the painter had no right to paint in such an imprecise fashion. Dimly I was aware too that the object did not appear in the picture..."
Wassily Kandinsky. Volga Song Tempera on cardboard. 49 x 66 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Russian Woman in a Landscape (1906)
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, " x 38.2
Study for Painting with White Lines (Bild mit weissen Linien), 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 Constructio n, 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 colours do you see? What colours 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?