| 1912
Improvisation 28
Vassily Kandinsky. 1912 C.E. Russian. Oil on canvas
His style had become more abstract and nearly schematic in its spontaneity. This painting's sweeping curves and forms, which dissolve significantly but remain vaguely recognizable, seem to reveal cataclysmic events on the left and symbols of hope and the paradise of spiritual salvation on the right.
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Form: oil on canvas
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Function:
- to have the viewer respond to a painting the way one would respond to an abstract musical composition like a concerto, sonata, or symphony
- title derived from musical compositions;
- gave musical titles to his works like "composition" and "improvisation"
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Content:
- movement towards abstraction
- representational objects suggested rather than depicted
- strong black lines
- colors shade around line forms
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Context:
- Expressionism
- inspired by the Fauve movement
- Die Brüke (The Bridge) movement
- they saw themselves as "the bridge" from traditional to modern painting
- violent juxtapositions of color
- Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) movement
- german group, named because the founders liked horses and the color blue
- abstraction
- a way to conceive the natural world in terms that went beyond representation
- if there are recognizable forms then our conscious minds will take over, and we would close off our emotional ability to respond to color and form
- Kandinsky
- big part of Der Blaue Reiter
- wrote essay called Concerning the Spiritual in Art which outlines his theories on color and form for the modern movement
- felt that sounds and color were linked (synesthesia)
- art should express an inner spiritual necessity
- Russian
- one of the first artists to make non-objective, or completely abstract, paintings
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