Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist born in 1866 who was influential in abstract art movements like the Blue Rider group and Bauhaus. He emphasized using color and form independently of subject matter and believed they possessed affective powers. As head of painting at the Bauhaus school, he taught abstract elements and directed workshops focusing on non-objective creation.
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist born in 1866 who was influential in abstract art movements like the Blue Rider group and Bauhaus. He emphasized using color and form independently of subject matter and believed they possessed affective powers. As head of painting at the Bauhaus school, he taught abstract elements and directed workshops focusing on non-objective creation.
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist born in 1866 who was influential in abstract art movements like the Blue Rider group and Bauhaus. He emphasized using color and form independently of subject matter and believed they possessed affective powers. As head of painting at the Bauhaus school, he taught abstract elements and directed workshops focusing on non-objective creation.
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist born in 1866 who was influential in abstract art movements like the Blue Rider group and Bauhaus. He emphasized using color and form independently of subject matter and believed they possessed affective powers. As head of painting at the Bauhaus school, he taught abstract elements and directed workshops focusing on non-objective creation.
• Died: December 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
• Russian artist from the blue rider movement, Bauhaus, and abstract art movements.
• Styles: impressionism, modern art, abstract art, spiritual abstraction,
geometric abstraction. • Prominent influence on his works: the influence of color • Kandinsky emphasized the process of creation and the value of pure painting, as opposed to subject matter. He firmly believed color and form possessed affective powers independent of the object. • At the Bauhaus in Dessau, he taught abstract form elements and analytical drawing in the preliminary course. he was the head of painting, he directed the free painting workshop and free painting class. impressionism
- The early works of Kandinsky were mostly
Impressionistic landscapes and woodblock prints. - The Blue Rider is the most famous painting of Kandinsky in the Impressionistic approach. - The techniques of making the user participate in creating the painting through imagination and using color for representation would later be used by Kandinsky in his abstract works.
The blue rider(1903)
Abstract
Composition X (1939) first abstract watercolor (1910)
Abstract
Farbstudie Quadrate (1913) Composition VII (1913)
Geometric Abstraction
On White II (1923) Several Circles (1926) Yellow-Red-Blue