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Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944

Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944. I applied streaks and blobs of colours onto the canvas with a palette knife and made them sing with all the intensity I could

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Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944

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  1. Wassily Kandinsky1866-1944

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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

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

  7. Russian Woman in a Landscape (1906)

  8. Old Town II

  9. Gabriele Munter

  10. Gabriele Munter Painting in Kallmunz

  11. Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel

  12. Picture XVI; The Great Gate of Kiev

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

  14. 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

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

  16. Small Pleasures 1913

  17. Composition VII

  18. To The Unknown Voice

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

  20. Composition VIII 1923

  21. On White II 1923

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

  23. Contrasting Sounds 1924

  24. Yellow, Red, Blue 1925

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

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

  27. Red Oval

  28. On Points

  29. Dominant Curve

  30. Decisive Pink

  31. Capricious

  32. Around the Circle

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

  34. 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?

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