Kandinsky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMiiKLyIR88
- Credited with painting one of the first recognized purely abstract works.
- God Father of Abstract Painting
- Born in Moscow 1866
- Started a career as a Law professor but left it to study art
- Early 1900’s Kandinsky began to think that painting didn’t need a particular subject, but that shapes and colors alone could be art
- He said “the more frightening the world becomes…the more art becomes abstract”.
- He believed music was the purest form of art. That music could evoke images in the mind. He saw colors when he heard music. He mostly listened to jazz music.
- He believed he could express feelings like in music but through colors and shapes in his paintings.
- Example: He thought that yellow had the crisp sound of a brass trumpet and that certain colors placed together could harmonize like chords on a piano.
- The Circle was the ideal form of spiritual expression in art
- Round forms evokes their universality – from the stars in the cosmos to drops of dew; the circle a shape integral to life
- He said “Everything starts with a dot
