(1866-1944)
O.k., many of you are probably thinking:
Kandinsky, De Kooning, Pollock, they are fall into
the same category - "THAT'S not art!" I'll
explain why I like Kandinsky. First, when I was
a kid, I did not, shall we say, "Stop and smell the
roses." For a variety of reasons, I felt I had the
weight of the world on my shoulders, so I didn't
notice the beauty of those things. Now, I am
working to change that. Simply, I like
Kandinsky's use of colors and shapes. They are
vivid. Second, I can "get it". When I look at
Cezanne, or Renoir, or Van Gogh, I know that I
could study and practice until my dying days and
I could never express myself in that way.
Strokes and blobs of color? Yea, I can do that.
It makes me happy. I enjoy the process, even
when the final product is not necessarily to my
liking.
My favorite of his works are his
"Compositions".The catch is that the
Compositions are carefully planned works - he
didn't just approach the canvas and start
swinging paint. Here are a few images of these
Compositions:
Other works:
Yellow, Red, Blue, 1925
Black and Violet, 1923
Contrasting Sounds, 1924
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