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    I believe that the founder of abstract art was Wassily Kandinsky a Russian painter who was known to be a pioneer of color theory and he believed this was a way to communicate. As we know different colors have different meanings and form interesting designs, but mainly we have to target our audience with

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    The beginning of the 20th-century ushered in a new era of Technology: Automobiles, Trains, Airplanes and the Telegraph, changed the way we perceived and interpreted the world. This new modern era, as it would later be called, had a profound impact on the Arts and Architecture. Gone was the old romanticism and symbolism that had dominated the 19th-entury earlier. Instead, Artists around the world started to incorporate the emerging geometrics of technology into their art. Cubism, Futurism, Fauvism

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    When the Bauhaus was shut down during the Nazi regime, the artists who had been a part of this exclusive experiment were forever changed and they carried their new setting of reference with them to their new homes as they spread across Europe and the United States. Most of them settled in the States where they changed the landscape of its greatest cities both inside and out, through their own ideas and the inspirations. The Bauhaus had a big impact on everything. They affected everything from black

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    Absolute Film Is Fine Art Although literature existing on the subject of abstract cinema’s origins is not lacking, seldom does it appear in a purely art historical context. In mentioning visual artists, particularly focusing on Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling’s collaborations, scholarship rarely questions the aesthetic motives or innate desire for each of these artists to transcend pencil and paper, oil and canvas primarily; so what are these films’ connections to previous endeavors for these pioneers

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    Some of his assignments were to create an impression of three-dimensionality in a two-dimensional drawing, and figurative studies drawing from nature (Westphal, 51). Wassily Kandinsky taught analytical thought process to help students understand the basic concepts of design in painting. His class included learning color, shapes, lines, composition, and characteristics (Westphal, 54). Paul Klee taught the analysis of sensory

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    With the need for an art movement that expressed emotions such as fear or anger, with world events such as the war, German Expressionism was born. Marc, along with fellow artist Wassily Kandinsky, founded "The Blue Rider" or "Der Blaue Reiter", a group of German Expressionist artists. They believed that different types of colour and line held different spiritual values, and portrayed different spiritual emotions. Marc believed that animals

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    Rational 1500 words Introduction (150) The construction of a matrix for the learning journey of a lower school student from year seven through towards year eight is complex and should be diverse. I will be discussing the considerations and why we have made our decisions as a group throughout the matrix, before narrowing down on my focus to the one year exploration of visual arts for a year nine. Considerations for its construction include the influence of learning (specifically learning theories)

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    in attempt to demonstrate these two qualities. He held onto Expressionism and encouraged his students to create art with instincts. Later, there came a move towards abstraction, which was surely not an opposite from Expressionism. Professor Wassily Kandinsky did studies concerning the affinity of line, color and form, whereas Josef Adler published Interaction of Color. What is more, the buildings of Bauhaus themselves, showed a sense of solidity. For instance, the one in Dassau has a geometric outlock

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    colors, textures, size, shapes, and processes of a painting rather than actually portraying a certain scene, person, object, or landscape from the natural world. An example of a non-objective painting is Picture with a Circle (1911) by Russian artist Wassily

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    who was an artist in 1926, who in turn introduced him to European Avant-grade art of which she felt had some spiritual and utopian aspect. (Heartney, 1999). As a result, Guggenheim changed his strategy of collecting and turned to the work of Wassily Kandinsky, just to mention. Initially, he displayed his collection at his apartment in New York City to the public. His collection grew and in 1937, he established Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF) so as to promote the modern art.

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