Kandinsky, Wassily Abstract 1899-1944 Russian Painter Authentic Artist Creating Art From

Kandinsky, Wassily Abstract 1899-1944 Russian Painter authentic artist creating art from "an internal necessity" Music Bauhaus blaue reiter: artist group *Guggenheim Show to celebrate anniversary, more work will be coming this next week. Pictures don’t need a subject Spirituality Inherent in Color.

Photographic Memory (which was overwhelming) Traveled the world Trained to be a Lawyer, and taught as law school Director of a plant that make art posters 1896 - Saw French Impressionist paintings in Moscow Monet- Haystacks, could not understand, repeated returned to look at them and saw The Renior was interested in the colors and shapes and that is where the beauty lays. Left to become painter, worked whole landscape to capture one element Explored medium, worked on woodblock Prints “Words with out Poems” repeating images was like the rhythm of a poem ( explore how picture can be like a poem) “The Blue Riders” with Franz Marc and various others -Considered themselves knights out o battle materialism. Bauhaus-- Professor at original school in Germany, with Walter Gropius During this time he celebrated machines. Using lines angels, circles, squares. 1933 Considered Degenerate Art by Nazis, left germany to Paris

“What is important for me is to clearly convey what I want - my dream .”

“If you painted a picture of your self, you would probably paint what you look like, the color of your eyes and hair, how tall/short you are, ect. Bu close your eyes for a minute and think about what you feel like. If you painted what you you feel like, it would be much different.”

Musical Color studies Format in Circles This work is about colors effects on each other, and then how color and line acts as a language together to express what we feel about sound.

Step one: paper for all children, names! Step two: .have the children draw abstractly what they hear using any lines. Step three: have the children paint abstractly what they hear using any lines.

Materials Music CD, CD player,oil pastels, water color: brushes, boards, paints. Water Color paper.