Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist born in 1866 who helped establish abstract art. He grew up enjoying music and initially pursued a career in law before becoming an artist at age 30. Kandinsky felt that abstract shapes and colors alone could constitute art, and that different colors represented different instruments and emotions. For example, he associated yellow with the trumpet and thought color combinations could be harmonious like musical chords. He often used circles, triangles, and squares in his paintings to represent spiritual, aggressive, and calm feelings respectively. Kandinsky helped pioneer abstract expressionism through his experimentation with form and color divorced from objective reality.

1. Wassily Kandinsky
Everything
starts with a
dot .

2. What do we know about Wassily
kandinsky?
• He was born in
Moscow, Russia on
December 16, 1866.
He grew up in the
Russian city of
Odessa where he
enjoyed music and
learned to play the
piano and the cello.

3. When he was little he played the
piano and the cello

4. BECOMING AN ARTIST
• Kandinsky went to
college and then
became a law
teacher. However,
when he was thirty
he decided to
change careers and
become an artist.

5. Abstract Expressionism
• Kandinsky was one
of the founding
fathers of Abstract
Art.
• Shapes and colors
alone could be art.

7. Abstract Expressionism
• The Abstract Art
movement is
called Abstract
Expressionism
because,
although the art
has no subject.

8. No subject

9. Colors and Shapes
• Kandinsky felt
that he could
express feelings
and music
through colors
and shapes in
his paintings.

10. MUSIC AND COLOURS
• For example, he
thought that yellow
had the crisp sound
of a brass trumpet
and that certain
colors placed
together could
harmonize like
chords on a piano.

11. Can we try like Kandinsky to guess the
sounds of the colours ?
• What colour the piano
sounds?
• What colour the violin
sounds?
• What colour the drum
sounds?

13. • The shapes he was most
interested in were the
circle, triangle, and the
square.
• He thought the triangle
would cause aggressive
feelings, the square
calm feelings, and the
circle spiritual feelings.

14. Wassily kandinsky’s pictures

18. Let’s paint like kandinsky
• Let’s draw circles of
different sizes on a
piece of paper.
• Colour them as you like.
• Cut them and paste the
smallest circle over the
largest.

19. Let’s create our Wassily kandinsky
picture
• 1.- Colour with waxes
the paper as you see in
the example.
• 2.- Draw in another
piece of paper circles of
different shapes and
colour them.
• 3.- When you finish
paste the circles on the
paper as you like.

20. Let’s make
Kandinsky’s tree

21. Experimenting
• Let’s draw our abstract
picture.
• In a piece of paper draw
different shapes, colour
them and cut them out.
• On a black cardboard
paste them as you want
and add lines etc..
• Use your imagination.

22. Let’s watch some videos.
• https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=qXcAkgPK
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• https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=iKsR3F21
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