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VASILY KANDINSKY: FOUNDER OF ABSTRACTIONISM 1866-1944
First Abstract Watercolor,
1910
KANDINSKY’S LIFE• Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia even though he lived in
Germany and France for most of his life.
• Kandinsky moved to Munich in 1896 and studied painting at the Munich Academy
• Around 1910, Kandinsky paints his first abstract painting and starts the Abstractionist movement.
• Kandinsky wrote a book called On the Spiritual in Art, which was published in 1911.
• In 1912, he left NKVM and became one of the founders of the Blue Rider in Munich, which is a group of artists that includes August Macke, Arnold Schoenberg, and Robert Delaunay.
• Kandinsky was offered a job at the Bauhaus, which is an art school. He taught from 1922 to 1933 and that was when the Nazis took over.
• Kandinsky died in 1944
BIG IDEA:1 MUSIC INFLUENCES KANDINSKY
Vasily Kandinsky was greatly influenced by music, specifically
Richard Wagner’s operas.
“The Soul is a piano with many strings, and the artist is the
hand that, by striking one particular key, causes the human
soul to vibrate” -Kandinsky
BIG IDEA 2: KANDINSKY LOVES COLOR
“Color is the medium by which one can affect the sole
directly” -Kandinsky
Composition IV,
1911
Improvisation VII,
1910
BIG IDEA 3: KANDINSKY’S PAINTINGS ARE CHAOTIC
Picture With a Black Arch,
1912
Fantastic Improvisation,
1913
• Lots of Movement
• No real order
• No symmetry
KASIMIR MALEVICH 1878-1935
The Black Square, 1915
MALEVICH’S LIFE
• Kasimir Malevich was born in Kiev, Ukraine 1878
• In 1906, Malevich settles in Moscow and studies with Fedor Rerberg.
• Between 1912 and 1915, Malevich joined the Russian Futurist group.
• In 1915 Malevich starts his own small movement, Suprematism, by
submitting works like The Black Square to a Futurist exhibition.
Suprematism is a form of Abstractionism.
• In 1923, Malevich is appointed as the director of the Petrograd Museum
of Artistic Culture.
• Malevich died in 1935.
BIG IDEA 1: THE BLACK SQUARE
• First painted in 1915
• Represents and Expresses
nothing
• Ground Zero of painting
BIG IDEA 2: MALEVICH USES GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION
Suprematist Painting,
1916
Supremus No. 58, 1916
• Malevich is a Geometric Abstractionist
• Malevich uses more color than other Abstractionists
BIG IDEA 3: MALEVICH, A SPIRITUAL ABSTRACTIONIST
Red Square, 1915
• Kasimir Malevich believes that painting is by feeling and that art
is in its purest form when it is free of representing natural
objects.
FRANTISEK KUPKA 1871-1957
Graduated Red
FRANTISEK KUPKA’S LIFE
• Frantisek Kupka is born in Opocno, Bohemia, 1871 (Bohemia is
in the Czech Republic).
• Kupka moves to Vienna, Austria in 1892.
• In 1912 at the Salon d’ Automne in Paris his work enrages
French Critics because they did not blend well with French taste
and tradition.
• In 1923 Frantisek Kupka has his book published in Prague. The
book is called Creation in Plastic Art and it contains Kupka’s
theory of color.
• Kupka died in 1957.
BIG IDEA 1: KUPKA IS A SPIRITUAL ABSTRACTIONIST
• Kupka was a young
daydreamer.
Graduated Red
• Kupka’s paintings seem
dream-like.
BIG IDEA 2: KUPKA’S WORK INVOLVES
INTERCONNECTED RINGS AND OVALS
Localization of Graphic Motifs II,
1912-13
Disks of Newton, 1919
• One unique theme aside from other abstractionism in the
paintings of Frantisek Kupka is the overlapping circle or oval
like structure.
THE EFFECT OF ABSTRACTIONISM
Winter
05Dancer
Two
• Challenged the ideal perception of art.
• An original Artistic Idea.
• Its influence is seen
today.
PUBLIC REACTION TO ABSTRACTIONISM
• Totalitarian leaders rejected Abstractionism.
• Abstractionism is criticized for expressing social
realities
• Abstractionism is criticized for lacking everything good
and pure in art.
• Criticized for being non-traditional.
ABSTRACTIONISM VS. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Malevich, Red Square, 1915 Rothko, Four Darks in Red, 1958
• Aside from the fact that these art movements are from
different time periods, there is a noticeable difference
in brush stroke.
ABSTRACTIONISM VS. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM CONTINUED
Kandinsky, First Abstract
Watercolor, 1910Pollock, Number 1, 1948
• Like the Abstract Expressionists, Kandinsky has a chaotic style but not
quite as chaotic as Pollock’s paintings.