Ms. O'Brien's Art Class. Torrey Pines High School. San DIego
Wassily Kandinsky was a modern master who is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. His life encompassed a brilliant career as a renowned painter, printmaker, watercolorist, theoretician, and Bauhaus teacher.
Born in Moscow, Russia, Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, in 1866, he lived for 78 years. His monumental accomplishments span almost all the major artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century. On his way to developing his own signature style he embraced all artistic styles — from Art Nouveau’s sinuous, organic forms, to Fauvism and Blaue Reiter’s shocking colors, to Surrealism’s mysteries, and the Bauhaus period’s focus on Constructivism, and more. Facts about the artist: -Kandinsky is most known for his spiritual abstraction. He believed that art should provide a religious message. As opposed to traditional realism that focused on physical matter and materialism, abstract artists focused foremost on the spirit. - He went to Law School and gave up his law career to pursue Art -His paintings were influenced by music. He viewed music as the most transcendent form of non-objective art. He emphasized how musicians could evoke images, colors and forms in listeners’ minds merely with sounds. He continued to produce object-free paintings that suggested sounds and emotions through a unity of sensation. - |
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