Wassily Kandinsky, In Blue, 1925Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
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This week's painting of the week comes at the request of Vanillabear who is apparenrtly teaching her class of six year olds about Russian Abstract Expressionist art! *thumbs up* This isn't really my area of expertise but let's muddle our way through it!
Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a lawyer before he realised his true calling was art and started painting at the relatively late age of 30, moving to Munich in 1896 and enrolling in the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1910 he began to explore abstractionism and wrote the theoretical treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art (published in 1912). A pioneer of pure abstraction, although his early works are traditional mimetic figure/form paintings, Kandinsky is mostly known for his works consisting of semi-geometric forms with colour masses to which he made musical analogies.
I chose In Blue because I feel its a good representation of his art and theories. Various overlapping shapes float through an undefined blue dreamspace while surrounded by a glowing yellow aura. But unlike the shapes of Malevich, these ones appear less solid as if they're happily bouncing around and happened to be caught at that moment. The happy feeling comes from the combination of colours on a blue background. Kandinsky considered blue a cold and calm colour while yellow was dynamic, almost violent. The two form a great contrast and with the warming red, solid brown, and white that's full of possibilities, we have something that's radiant and joyful. You can almost hear them going *wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!* are they bounce around. *Thumbs up, Wassily!*
Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a lawyer before he realised his true calling was art and started painting at the relatively late age of 30, moving to Munich in 1896 and enrolling in the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1910 he began to explore abstractionism and wrote the theoretical treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art (published in 1912). A pioneer of pure abstraction, although his early works are traditional mimetic figure/form paintings, Kandinsky is mostly known for his works consisting of semi-geometric forms with colour masses to which he made musical analogies.
I chose In Blue because I feel its a good representation of his art and theories. Various overlapping shapes float through an undefined blue dreamspace while surrounded by a glowing yellow aura. But unlike the shapes of Malevich, these ones appear less solid as if they're happily bouncing around and happened to be caught at that moment. The happy feeling comes from the combination of colours on a blue background. Kandinsky considered blue a cold and calm colour while yellow was dynamic, almost violent. The two form a great contrast and with the warming red, solid brown, and white that's full of possibilities, we have something that's radiant and joyful. You can almost hear them going *wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!* are they bounce around. *Thumbs up, Wassily!*
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Yay - In Blue is one of the paintings we're using actually! I didn't think I really liked abstract art but Kandinsky is fun :)
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