Wassily Kandinsky Abstract Painting
4th Grade
Wassily Kandinsky
- Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia on December 16, 1866.
- He grew up in the Russian city of Odessa where he enjoyed music and learned to play the piano and the cello.
- Kandinsky would remark later that, even as a child, the colors of nature dazzled him. Both music and colors would have a huge impact on his art later in life.
- Kandinsky went to college and then became a law teacher. However, when he was thirty he decided to change careers and become an artist so he attended art school.
- Kandinsky's early paintings were landscapes
- Around 1909 Kandinsky began to think that painting didn't need a particular subject, but that shapes and colors alone could be art.
- Over the next several years he would start to paint what would become known as Abstract Art.
- Kandinsky was one of the founding fathers of Abstract Art.
- Kandinsky felt that he could express feelings and music through colors and shapes in his paintings.
- For example, he thought that yellow had the crisp sound of a brass trumpet and that certain colors that looked nice together were like notes on a piano.
- The shapes he was most interested in were the circle, triangle, and the square.
- He thought the triangle would cause aggressive feelings, the square calm feelings, and the circle thoughtful feelings.
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Sometimes Kandinsky painted recognizable objects in his paintings. This is call representational art. However, more often when he painted he wasn't intending to paint any object - this is called abstract art.
https://youtu.be/dG8wEFLM0fk?list=PLK-1wXlQYPRfj8oEIqBaoP4dWfgfwVdkB
https://youtu.be/aMiiKLyIR88?list=PLK-1wXlQYPRfj8oEIqBaoP4dWfgfwVdkB
Step 1: Draw what you hear as you listen to music. Use both a sharpie and crayola markers
Step 2: Paint on your drawing using liquid watercolor
Step 3: Color in some places and draw some more lines and shapes with sharpie
***Be sure to include some free form and some geometric shapes.
https://youtu.be/r_ZbwcKNpOs