Improvisation 28 (second version)
Improvisation 28 (second version). Vassily Kandinsky. 1912 C.E. Oil on canvas.
- Name of a musical composition; he is composing in form.
- Rooted to stories of the bible/history
- Associating painting with music; painting was signify something non concrete
- See music, hear color, synesthesia; crossing of the senses; wanted us to hear something;
- Influenced by many composers/musicians; atonal; chaotic, cacophony; brilliant color, hazy atmosphere, black diagonal lines that crisscross with each other
- Resembles war, drawn years before first World War; Russian pieces focus on this; verge of abstraction; artist believed that if things were drawn as they are, it would ruin our interpretation of them
- Close off our emotional ability to response to the true color/form of a piece; heavenly jerusalem; heavily influenced by religious imagery; resembles pieces related to Christian stories; representation of an apocalypse; great flood
- Cannons are being fired; atmospheric effect; smoke on a battle fields; horses/riders; utopian; wash away the old war; Russian revolution, WWI; artist convinced he could lead war-related paintings like this; artist could play an important role in history; color in a radical way;
- Created not to mimic, or describe
- Rhythm, musicality.