Essays Tagged: "Wassily Kandinsky"

Expressionism Expressionism was one of the main movements in the later 19th and 20th centuries. No other artistic style has had as much an impact on 20th century art as expressionism has.

t movement was Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), being larger, and philosophical in its approach.Wassily Kandinsky played a major role in this group, like some of his other colleagues, Kandinsky co ...

(4 pages) 233 0 2.6 Aug/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

Abstracted work of art vs. a total abstraction, specifically "Girl in Window" vs. "For the Light" [Written in N.Y.C. on 12/02]

ity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential " - Vassily Kandinsky. An abstract work of art could even have many meanings and create a different feeling for ...

(3 pages) 85 0 4.5 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

A Biography on Famous Russian Artist, Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia on December 4, 1866 and he was one of the first creator ... n December 4, 1866 and he was one of the first creators of the pure abstraction in modern painting. Wassily founded the Munich group of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) from 1911 to the 14th. The for ... natural realistic in his painting and his colors start to look visible in his artwork. A quote from Wassily that I believe expressing his point of view in his paintings: "the first physical impression ...

(2 pages) 62 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Expressionism

eir first show in Munichin 1913. Not all of these artists were Germans. They included two Russians, Wassily Kandinsky and Alex von Jawlensky, and a Swiss, Paul Klee. Other members of the Munich moveme ...

(5 pages) 122 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Franz Marc: a brief frames analysis

ideology.CulturalA pioneer of abstract art.Founded Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Riders) in 1911 with Kandinsky.Studied at the Kunstakademie in Munich with Gabriel Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez.Was introdu ...

(2 pages) 49 0 3.9 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Discussion on Abstract Art vs. 'Fine' Art

ists, something fairly recent and 'innovative,' so to speak. They are the type such as Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, and Mark Chagall. These people create Expressionistic, Abstract, and Surrealist a ... tirely to modern art.Art critics say that the blocks of color by Mark Rothko are fine art, and that Wassily Kandinsky's squiggles and lines indicate a much deeper meaning. However, work such as theirs ...

(4 pages) 157 0 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

The Degeneration of Fine Art Museums Into Warehouses for Modern 'Art'

ists, something fairly recent and 'innovative,' so to speak. They are the type such as Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, and Mark Chagall. These people create Expressionistic, Abstract, and Surrealist a ... tirely to modern art.Art critics say that the blocks of color by Mark Rothko are fine art, and that Wassily Kandinsky's squiggles and lines indicate a much deeper meaning. However, work such as theirs ...

(4 pages) 79 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Art Modernism Essay. A structured essay on how Modernist Painters looked at the world in a new way.

nstead, communicated through the purity of their materials and paintings. This is a style common to Wassily Kandinsky of the Blue Rider Group and Piet Mondrian. And then there exploded a vast array of ... The Blue Rider was an association of artists located in and around Munich. The group was founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in 1911. Together with another group of artists, The Bridge, center ...

(19 pages) 321 0 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Notes on Two Modernist Movements and 2 Artists in Each Movement and 8 paintings Evaluated using the Frames.

The Blue Rider was an association of artists located in and around Munich. The group was founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in 1911. Together with another group of artists, The Bridge, center ... rc encountered the kindred spirits who would later form the core of the Blue Rider group--including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Alexej Jawlensky--his style matured into a broader artistic philos ...

(23 pages) 194 1 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Materials and techniques of Jackson Pollock, Godfrey Miller and Pablo Picasso

s very avant garde approach could be partially attributed to the Russian artist of the early 1900's Wassily Kandinsky, who was quite interested in expressing music in art through technique suggesting ... and mathematics. He envisaged universal order hidden in the natural world, much like Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Theo van Doesburg, pioneering abstract artists of the early 1900's. ...

(8 pages) 77 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Wassily Kandisnky

HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDWassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and spent his early childhood in Odessa. He grew up in ... mmunity, younger artists (such as Miro, Arp, Magnelli and Sophie Tauber) admired him. In June 1944, Wassily Kandinsky died - he left a legacy through his teaching and extraordinary artworks which went ... trokes that reflect his aim to express his inner, essential feelings.STRUCTURAL ANALYSISCossacks by Wassily Kandinsky delights in the use of free, flowing brushstrokes and sharp line work to give the ...

(4 pages) 52 0 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Creative couples. A brief biographical essay on the relationships of fine artist couples through history.

nced by the social climate of their times.An example is the relationship between Gabriel Munter and Wassily Kandinsky. Munter went to study at the unofficial Phalanx Art School, of which Kandinsky was ...

(7 pages) 66 0 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Mark Rothko and Mysticism.

s considered related to spirituality. Several of the pioneers of abstract art, the Russian painters Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevitch, and the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, were strongly influenc ...

(3 pages) 67 0 4.6 Oct/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Essay on modernism including cubism and expressionism

nstead, communicated through the purity of their materials and paintings. This is a style common to Wassily Kandinsky of the Blue Rider Group and Piet Mondrian. And then there exploded a vast array of ... The Blue Rider was an association of artists located in and around Munich. The group was founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in 1911. Together with another group of artists, The Bridge, center ...

(18 pages) 154 0 3.2 Jul/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Abstraction

Introduction This essay is about abstraction, Wassily Kandinsky and Mark Rothko. In the first subject I shall try to define the word abstraction a ... efine the word abstraction and write about the paths to abstraction, I will then go on to introduce Wassily Kandinsky as the second subject. I will discuss Kandinsky's theories on abstraction and anal ... al, the spontaneous and the irrational.Nature Morte- Pablo Picasso The Swineherd, Brittany- Gauguin Wassily Kandinsky and his Theories on Abstraction.Wassily Kandinsky was born in 1866 in Moscow he la ...

(5 pages) 42 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

MONET, KANDINSKY AND BOCCIONI

which led the public and Monet's contemporaries to a higher appreciation of Impressionism.In 1895, Wassily Kandinsky saw Monet's Haystack series of 1891 at the Moscow exhibition of French Impressioni ...

(8 pages) 22 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari In Relation To German

ntial within theatre and architecture, and later penetrated German literature through poets such as Wassily Kandinsky and George Grosz. Essentially, expressionism is a term that is used to describe wo ...

(6 pages) 26 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists