Kandinsky: Will get you into shape(s)!
“To create a work of art is to create the world.”
If you have the 2020 house calendar, I hope you’ve enjoyed the April calendar art inspired by Wassily Kandinsky. (Because it’s been a LO-O-ON-NG month.) I so enjoyed playing with his style this month. Adding geometric shapes, loose lines, bright colors…it was all great fun and I found it hard to stop. Although I did most of my painting on canvas (nothing like wielding a brush around loosey goose, is what I always say)…I played digitally, trying to reproduce things I saw in his paintings. Having so much fun, I went on too long for good design sake; it was hard to stop playing. (See quick video below.) Abstract is a whole lot harder than just putting shapes, lines, and color in any old place.
i had such fun painting circles- above - then playing some Photoshop magic.
Below is a little gallery of some of my favorite Kandinsky pieces. When he didn’t paint abstracts, he painted street scenes and landscapes with the brightest and boldest of colors. He was a lover of music and was, indeed, also a lover of color. (So many artists are also musicians or have a love of music that inspires them. The ARTS.
Colors are dog bright and saturated it virtually pokes your eyeballs out! - Heard at museum
“The more frightening the world becomes...the more art becomes abstract.”
“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.”
“Painting is a thundering collision of different worlds, intended to create a new world in and from the struggle with one another, a new world which is the work of art.”