Each student will be assigned one of the following works.
You must answer the blog questions for just your assigned
artwork.
However, I would highly recommend all of you reading/watching
all of the following links below over all the pieces.
Greg - Kandinsky's Improvisation 28 (#132)
1. Take one minute to list adjectives that describe the
following artworks: Matisse's Goldfish (#131), Kandinsky's Improvisation 28
(#132), and Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow in separate
columns.
Kandinsky’s Improvisation: chaotic, random, colorful, messy,
jumbled, abstract, and confusing
Matisse’s Goldfish: bright, beautiful, slanted, complementary,
life-like, and tilted
Mondrian’s Composition: basic, plain, linear, simple, and
proportional
Kandinsky’s improvisation is different from all of the other
art works in that it is a jumble of different depictions and ideas. When you
would look at this it evokes a sense of chaos. It is as if the subconscious of
the brain illustrated itself upon this canvas. This is the prominent aspect of
this painting that differentiates it from the rest of the others. Matisse’s
Goldfish contrast itself from the others in that gives the most accurate perspective
and illustration of life. Even though the painting does not look correctly proportionate
and 3-D it is the most life-like. For instance the things upon the table look
as if they could never really stay on the top. We are expecting those things to
fall of the table. But ultimately we understand what is being illustrated as
compared to Kandinsky’s Improvisation where on a first glance at the painting anybody’s
guess is good as any. Lastly Mondrian’s Composition Red, Blue, and Yellow is completely
different the rest. The other painting represents life but here we see geometric
shapes and lines represented here. This definitely when introduced started a
new era of art. Never before would this be considered art and received much
backlash in its entry.
During this period with the horrors of the First World War
many sought to express themselves as a way deal with what they had experienced.
This event and intellectual thinking lead to a great deal of emotional and
horrific depicted art work of this time period. Because of such a transformative
time this resulted in new techniques and styles of art. Sigmund Freud is the
founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology
through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. And during this time
period the perspective about the relationship and status of our own thoughts
and subconscious was prevalent. You look at Kandinsky’s Improvisation and that it
exemplifies what I’m talking about.
5. Examine ways Kandinsky abandons representation in the
belief that abstraction enables color, like music, to speak directly to the
soul.
Kandinsky abandons representation in the belief that abstraction
enables color to speak directly to the soul by creating a swill of jumbled
imagery in a convoluted way. The mess of the imagery causes the viewer to see
the condition of the soul. There is no emphasis on the color of the piece because
it is told through the imagery.