Wassily Kandinsky Artist Analysis

In the year 1913, Kandinsky created the composition VII, which became one the most talked about painting of the century. A very interesting fact about Kandinsky is his devotion to colors. His painting’s meaning will be revealed if you know the color symbolism. Through the years 1918 to 1921, Kandinsky dedicated his time to learn more about form and color analyses.

     Color values are strong in this painting. It goes back to what I said about color, but I believe the soft hue of the blue walls against the strong hue of the bed frame and floor provides enough contrast to pull you into the painting. I also like the strong hue of the table. It connects the visual of looking at the chairs and the bed. When you look at the table, your eye cannot help but look at the other furniture.

The painting has contrasting colors like red, white, yellow and green. While it also has some dark colors to create a sense of power. These vivid colors create a complementary contrast. The dark red background with the gold designs makes the black man wearing the different shades of green stand out. Also, the white horse has various colors of brown and black which makes it stand out from the red. The main idea is to see the black man on the horse and you can tell Wiley thought the color scheme through. The contour lines Wiley used were organized, thin, and nicely controlled when it came to drawing the horse’s hair and body figure. Also, gold lines were detailed in the background creating a type of pattern to create an illusion. Closely, if you look into the background Wiley drew little sperms to complete the background. Lastly, the actual texture of the painting has a smooth finish. The oil on canvas painting almost makes it seem like if you touch it the horse would be silky

The work is very smooth and fluid making it appear much like a photograph. The oil is not built up on top of itself keeping it very two dimensional. The colors vary between dark and light throughout the painting. In the top right corner, the sun, outside the painting, shining down, aluminates the castle and also the lone tree at the bottom left corner. Besides the back cliff, the rest of the painting is in shadow and displayed in a much more melancholy tone. The colors that Cole focuses on, to display the sharp contrast between rock and nature, are mostly dark greens and gold. The striking blue of the river stands out dramatically from the rest of the colors and draws the eye after the initial citing. The grey in the cloud is the only place where I can find that shade of gray in the work, and it sets itself apart from the snow white clouds in the background. The color helps draw the eye immediately to the castle on the hill. My eyes then fallow the flow of the river down to the tree, which is illuminated by a beam of sunlight.

The innovative and passionate presence in both Jackson Pollock’s and Wassily Kandinsky avant-garde paintings exemplifies the redefinition of boundaries throughout their art making practices. Both artists challenged traditions both materially and conceptually using innovative and diverse approaches to materials and techniques when painting. Wassily Kandinsky goes against traditions and academies to create vivid, sensual and symbolic large-scale semi abstract expressionist oil paintings in a heightened state of mind. Many artworks of his convey bright and cheerful spontaneous colours that make the audience fully consumed within his works due to hypnotic and distorted semi realist shapes. Consequently, Jackson Pollock also goes against

We can also see the use of black shades to create a hole at the bottom part of the rock. With his excellent use of colors, we can identify the good, healthy and green grass from the bad, unhealthy, brown grasses. Looking beyond the main focus of the painting, he uses colors to separate the sky from the land in the background creating a solid form of perspective on the painting. He also uses colors to create water forms as seen behind the young character. Now, for the sky, he uses shades of white to magnificently differentiate the thick clouds from the light ones. He also uses this to create a source to light to the whole area. All these put together creates a splendid, realistic and familiar atmosphere for the viewers to relate with.

Javier Pineda is a Dominican Republic visual artist, who focuses his artwork in reflecting his sensitivity to social problems about his country, contextualizing the problems of the world to make a critique of life. This piece of art is a 3-D teenager representation made of carved and poly-chrome cedar wood, has a black headphone on the neck and skateboard under the feet, and has a 2-D head with interspersed curved lines made of charcoal.

Lots of thick and many thin lines that are connected with no division. The outline of objects and people are a lighter tone to represent the shadows. Many curvy lines to show the figures of the women in the room by their strong stands with the pool table waiting for their turns to go. There are many shapes in present but the one that was used the most was the rectangle and circle. I feel as if hatching played a huge role in the drawing just by looking real close at the characters’ clothes and the details on their arms. Nothing in the painting really stood out so they didn’t put the focus on one specific thing, which makes you get an eye full at one time. The use of color ranges from the primary to the secondary colors and that is also low in the saturation as well. The painting is polychromatic because there was a lot of different colors used throughout the painting. It’s hard for me to get a texture feel of this painting because it seems more symbolic than a statement or the people seem more like a documentation of people at a certain time and

Phones are the easiest and most common way to get connected. Through his art, Pawel Kuczynski is warning the audience of problems that phones cause among people. The artist has created many paintings to convey the idea of technology causing people to become separated and disconnected from one another. Kuczynski’s art could be seen as a metaphor for young people, being connected through technology but still isolated in loneliness. Phones are most likely the most commonly used source of communication in the world; which begs the question of how they could possibly be disconnecting people. The title alone, Islands, suggests to the audience a sense of distance and isolation. That is also conveyed in the painting itself with the use of perspective

The yellow was more present, because it was very upbeat and seemed like something severe was going to happen. It is unique to me that the picture focuses on a lot of greens and blues, showing that these two combine together to make the art piece seem more intense. This tone color was also bright and put off some very extreme force. I also believe that Variation XI “G.R.S.” gave off a mood of energy. I got this feeling because it has a very fast tempo and the quick pace of the tone created a different picture in my mind. The tone color of the song helped to implicate a new meaning behind The Rapids, Sister Island, Niagara.

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian-born artist, whose contributions to the world of modern art are innumerable. On an artistic level, Kandinsky's maturation process from representational art to abstract art is fascinating. From his earliest work, with an impressionistic flair, to his later work, which was pure abstraction, Kandinsky was an innovator and a genius. He bridged the gap between reality painting of earlier decades and the fantasy pastime of the twentieth century.

) While studying under Jacob Kahn, Asher engages with Western Christian culture via art; this interaction alienates Asher from his family while enabling him to explore art and find his purpose. Jacob Kahn is a former Hasidic Jew who studies with the Ladover Rebbe yet maintains a largely secular lifestyle. His perspective of being a former Hasid leads Kahn to understand Asher’s tie to Judaism and not dissuade him from remaining a Jew. However, while instructing Asher, Kahn exposes him to nudes and crucifixions, both forms of art that the Ladover Hasidic community judges to be improper and from the Other Side. Kahn articulates his firm desire for Asher to be able to present an artistic rendering of the human form, stating,

Like Nietzsche, Kandinsky's views also had elements of disenchantment of modern western society and the possibility of re-enchantment. For Kandinsky, materialism represented disenchantment of western culture. In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Kandinsky, “Our minds...are infected with the despair of unbelief, of lack of purpose and ideal” because of materialism.6 With materialism we have nothing to live for because we have everything already. Kandinsky also had views on re-enchantment represented by abstract art and the abstract artist. The abstract artist uses forms and colors that evoke vibrations of the soul and awaken emotions many have

He sought to break free from creating pieces of recognizable forms and subject matter. Wassily Kandinsky was fascinated by the emotional power music brought and used it as an inspirational tool. Music expresses itself through sound and time. The greatness of music is that it allows a listener the freedom to imagine, interpret and feel however they want and create whatever they want from it. In other words, music is subtle, and like a ghost, but its effects are concrete and profound, even though it is not always able to be proven with hard facts it is unimaginably amazing. Kandinsky liked to refer to his art as “Compositions”, a term he took from music no doubt and stated early in his career “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.” Because of this statement it allowed many artists that came after him the permission to use music as a means of justifying creating new and different works of art that were extremely

Surrealism is not the only movement that influences expressive arts therapy. Other movements have made important contributions to both the philosophical foundations of art in psychology and the development of expressive arts therapy as a formal discipline. Wassaly Kadinsky, a German abstract expressionist, explored color, shape, and form as an expression of spirituality. He developed theories regarding the nature of art and the role of the artist as a “prophet”. His theories are based on inner experiences and art as the soul of nature and humanity. Joseph Beuys explored the role of artist as shaman. In his performance art, like How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, he chose materials and actions for their symbolic value and manipulated them to affect the viewer. Spontaneous creativity is the focus of the beat generation. Writers, like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, worked