Wassily Kandinsky 18661944

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Wassily Kandinsky1866-1944
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• 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

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• 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.

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

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

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"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..."
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Claude MONET18401926Haystacks at Giverny, the
evening sun 1888
(Morning Snow Effect)
The End of the Summer, at Giverny, 1891
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Wassily Kandinsky. Volga Song. 1906. Tempera on
cardboard. 49 x 66 cm. Musée National d'Art
Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
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Russian Woman in a Landscape (1906)
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Old Town II
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Gabriele Munter
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Gabriele Munter Painting in Kallmunz
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Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel
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Picture XVI The Great Gate of Kiev
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Improvisation 26 (Oars) Oil on canvas, 1912
42.1" x 38.2
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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
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Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) 1913 Oil on
canvas, 145 x 119.7cm (57 x 47 in)
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Small Pleasures 1913
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Composition VII
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To The Unknown Voice
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Wassily Kandinsky, White Line, No. 232, oil on
canvas, 1920.
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Composition VIII 1923
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On White II 1923
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Wassily Kandinsky, Black and Violet, oil on
canvas, 1923.
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Contrasting Sounds 1924
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Yellow, Red, Blue 1925
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Wassily Kandinsky, Several Circles, oil on
canvas, 1926.
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Wassily Kandinsky, Softened Construction, oil on
canvas, 1927.
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Red Oval
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On Points
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Dominant Curve
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Decisive Pink
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Capricious
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Around the Circle
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Wassily Kandinsky, Composition X, oil on canvas,
1939.
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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?