Kandinsky
See Think Wonder
What do you see in the picture? What do you think is happening and what was the artist trying to tell you with this picture? What does this picture make you wonder about?
Wassily Kandinsky Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913
Vassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky 16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art.[1] Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa (today Ukraine),
Kandinsky's creation of abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense thought based on his artistic experiences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity;[5] it was a central aspect of his art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky
Kandinsky was a synesthete. A person that has their senses combine and activate eachother. This bolsteed his creativity and effected how he saw the world.
Synesthesia
A neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway (for example, hearing) leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (such as vision). Simply put, when one sense is activated, another unrelated sense is activated at the same time. Tasting color, seeing the sound of color, hearing colors, these are just dome of the ways that people can crossover their senses. With 4% of the population having this trait many people you have heard of this have it because it can aid in creativity. Bille Eilish, Lady Gaga, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West all have music-related forms — but many don’t realise it is unusual. One in 25 of you reading this will have synaesthesia, but how many of you realised there was a word for it?
Taste Smell Hearing Touch Vision
Read Aloud and More
What Color is Tuesday?
The Noisy Paintbox
The Girl Who Heard Colors
What is synesthesia?
Assignment
Use the medium of your choice to create a work of art inspired by Wassily Kandinsky's Squares with concentric circles. Consider your color scheme: paste, warm or cool colors, high contrast, shades of gray. You can decide to make your circles a stand alone compostition, or you can use your circles to create another project.
Use cut paper to make your own version
Draw a person or use a photograph and use your circles for bubbles
Use your circles as a background for a silhouette tree
Use crayon to make your own version of the project
Paint your circles on rocks to decorate your walkway or garden
Cut out your circles to create a tree with multicolored leaves/flowers
Use your circles to create flowers
Create an all over design
Vocabulary
synesthesia
concentric
warm color
Cool colors
Contrasting
pastel/tint
monochromatic
grayscale
hue
Why this project
awareness of shape
making choices about color
planning a compositon/project
coloring, drawing, cutting
color relationships
different perspectives
Kandinsky's Inspiration
As the story goes, in early January 1911, Kandinsky, who was in Munich, went to an Arnold Schoenberg concert with his friends. What he heard there showed him the parallels between Schoenberg’s music, which was starting its trip towards serial music and atonality, and his own painting, which was trying to break from the traditional figurative style of painting.
Click on the picture to the left and to see a gallery of Wassily Kandinsy's works.
Warm colors and Cool colors
Tint/pastel color with white added
monochrome colors: tint, and shade of one hue
after studying Kandinsky- students created an abstract drawing that represented their favorite song! This is amazing!