1. Abstract Expressionist MUSICAL REPRESENTATIONS
WASSILY KANDINsKY
Abstract Expressionist
MUSICAL REPRESENTATIONS

2. Asymmetrical Balance

3. What happens to the shapes when they overlap?
What principles of design are evident here?
What happens to the shapes when they overlap?

4. What type of music inspired this?

5. "Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer
"Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically."

6. Wassily Kandinsky

7. I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and made them sing with all the intensity I could
"Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically."
Wassily Kandinsky

8. 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.

9. Kandinsky was very spiritual about his art making.
He was commented as saying, That his belief in art is based on the harmony of color and form.
He believed that every color had an inner voice and a meaning.

10. He carefully plans each painting to express, through the colours and abstract forms, exactly the feelings and spiritual ideas he wishes to communicate.

11. Wassily Kandinsky. Volga Song. 1906. Tempera on cardboard. 49 x 66 cm
Wassily Kandinsky. Volga Song Tempera on cardboard. 49 x 66 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

12. Russian Woman in a Landscape (1906)

13. He was able to paint realistically
Old Town II

14. Gabriele Munter

15. Gabriele Munter Painting in Kallmunz

16. Here you can see Kandisnky began to break away from realism, breaking this down more into shapes and colors.
Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel

17. Picture XVI; The Great Gate of Kiev

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

19. Study for Painting with White Lines (Bild mit weissen Linien), 1913
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

20. Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)
1913; Oil on canvas, 145 x 119.7cm (57 x 47 in);

21. Small Pleasures

22. Composition VII

23. To The Unknown Voice

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

25. Composition VIII

26. On White II

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

28. Contrasting Sounds
1924

29. Yellow, Red, Blue

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

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

34. Red Oval

35. On Points

36. Dominant Curve

37. Decisive Pink

38. Capricious

39. Around the Circle

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

41. Composition: Storm Guided student questions
How does this painting make you feel?
What colours do you see?
What colours do you see the most of?
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 types of lines do you see?
Does anything in this painting remind you of a storm?
What do you think it would feel like? Why?