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?

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/synaesthesia-a-superpower-i-share-with-billie-eilish-a4346686.html

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!