Friday, December 7, 2012

Friday Feature: Wassily Kandinsky


Composition 7 by Wassily Kandinsky

Kandinsky is considered most famous as a founder of the abstract movement.  He allowed for symbolic images to drop from his work depicting only non-representational shape and color.  His goal was to communicate emotion through color exemplified by the painting above.

Color provokes a psychic vibration.
Color hides a power still unknown but real,
which acts on every part of the human body.
-Kandinsky

And that is all cool, influential stuff...
but honestly my favorite Kandinskys are his works just before he hit abstraction... when there was still a hint of a human form or a landscape.  What can I say- I love the more Fauve-ish Impressionism greater than the later forms of Expressionism.
Personal taste.

White Sound by Wassily Kandinsky

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