5. What is Abstract Art?
• nonobjective and nonrepresentational
• portraying non-visual aspects of an
object
• color, form and line - only things that
matter
• took meaning out of the paintings and
emphasized emotion
8. Kandinsky
• Incorporated music into his artwork
• ex. saturation associated with volume
of sound
• “Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the
harmonies, the soil is the piano with many
strings. The artist is the hand that plays,
touching one key to another, to cause
vibrations in the soil.” -Kandinsky
9. Der Blaue Reiter
• 1911 Kandinsky organized a group called
“Der Blaue Reiter” (The Blue Rider) - 9
artists
• promote abstract art
• transferring spiritual experiences through
color and sound
• published Concerning the Spiritual in Art
10. Concerning the Spiritual in Art
• got all his ideas out there
about abstract art - western
culture
• “inner necessity” needed for
art
13. Teaching at the Bauhaus
• increased his attention to
geometry
• paid attention to the
relationship between the
forms and colors
• deeper connection with his
work
16. Kazmir Malevich
• Started Suprematism
• Taught himself how to paint
• Russian
• Learned about Cubism
through Russian
collector who displayed
art of Cezanne, Matisse,
and Picasso
27. Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944)
“Every artist has been inspired more by the beauty
of lines and color and the relationships between
”
them than by the concrete subject of the picture.
28. De Stijl (1917 - 1931)
• In 1917 Mondrian helped begin the periodical art
movement known as “De Stijl”
• Classified as Neoplacticism
• Complete rejection of visual reality
• Stripped art to its most basic form
• Straight lines, primary colors, and black white or
gray
30. Red and Blue Chair Rietveld Shroder House
Gerrit Rietveld (1917)
31. “The emotion of beauty is always obscured by
the appearance of the object. Therefore, the
object must be eliminated from the picture. ”
–Piet Mondrian
Composition 10
(1939)
