Day 1: Draw it
15 minute sketch of "Composition #8" and listen to Wagner
Day 2: Write it
-Artist: Wassily Kandinsky
-Nationality: Russian
-Painting: "Composition #8"
Kandinsky loved color and the meanings that an artist could use in their paintings. Color and music were his biggest inspiration - they led him to create his own color theory that would explain what his colors mean or represent if you heard the music.
He began as a realistic artist but still used colors to show emotion rather than using realistic techniques. He wanted the viewers to feel the emotion in his paintings through the colors. As he became more abstract, he started using colors as patches instead of details. He was a capable realist artist but he grew as an artist and became completely abstract.
"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposely, to cause vibrations in the soul."
–Kandinsky, The Effect of Color, 1911
15 minute sketch of "Composition #8" and listen to Wagner
Day 2: Write it
-Artist: Wassily Kandinsky
-Nationality: Russian
-Painting: "Composition #8"
Kandinsky loved color and the meanings that an artist could use in their paintings. Color and music were his biggest inspiration - they led him to create his own color theory that would explain what his colors mean or represent if you heard the music.
He began as a realistic artist but still used colors to show emotion rather than using realistic techniques. He wanted the viewers to feel the emotion in his paintings through the colors. As he became more abstract, he started using colors as patches instead of details. He was a capable realist artist but he grew as an artist and became completely abstract.
"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposely, to cause vibrations in the soul."
–Kandinsky, The Effect of Color, 1911
Day 3: Creative Drawing
Use colors to create a drawing that shows mood according to Kandinsky.
Day 4: Creative Writing
Do you agree with all of Kandinsky's color to emotions? For example, is violet a morbid color? Which do you agree with and which are completely wrong to you? The colors you disagree with, what should they be?
Day 5: Quiz
Check Exittix for a link to your quiz
Use colors to create a drawing that shows mood according to Kandinsky.
Day 4: Creative Writing
Do you agree with all of Kandinsky's color to emotions? For example, is violet a morbid color? Which do you agree with and which are completely wrong to you? The colors you disagree with, what should they be?
Day 5: Quiz
Check Exittix for a link to your quiz