WHAT IS MODERN ART?

        Modern Art as we know it began around the 1880's at the end of the Impressionists period.  At that time Post Impressionism began with the work of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat, and what beautiful work it was.

        Post Impressionism greatly influenced the 20th century abstraction of painters like Matisse, Picasso and Kandinsky, and they took it to the next level.

        And so it began, brilliant artists were unleashed, creative talent was permitted to think out of the box and we have been the beneficiaries.  The possibilities are endless.

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YOU HAVE GOT TO LOVE WASSILY KANDINSKY

   
        If you enjoy abstract art and appreciate abstract thinking, then you have got to love Wassily Kandinsky.  I guess that you have probably figured out by now, based on my previous blogs, that I love artists that view the world with an abstract slant, and use color to achieve it.
        

       Kandinsky once wrote "I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting lifted me out of reality".  In Kandinsky's works of his early period, we find specific color combinations, which he explained that "each color lives by it's mysterious life".

        Kandinsky once recollected two events, which affected his creative future; his visiting the French impressionists in Moscow in 1895, and an emotional shock he experienced from K Monet's "Haystacks", and an impression of Rihard Wagner's "Lohengin" at the Bolshoi Theatre

        In 1912 He published "Concerning the Spiritual in Art", turning upside down the established idea about art in general, this book became the first theoretical foundation for abstractionism.

        During the wartime, he named this period of his creativity,  "a really picturesque fairy tale".  Because of the shortage of materials the formats of his pictures became ever less, up to that moment when he was compelled to be content with gouache painting, which is a type of paint consisting of pigment, a binding agent (usually gum arabic) and sometimes added inert material, all on a cardboard format.

Below are three paintings from the period:Complex Simple 1939, Colorful Ensemble, 1938 and Sky Blue, 1940.

    To quote Kandinsky "Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with "reality" next to the"real" world.  Deeper down, it is subject to the common laws of the "cosmic world".  And so a "new world of art" is juxtaposed or placed side by side to the "world of nature'.  This "world of art" is just as real as concrete.  For this reason I prefer to call so-called "abstract art" "concrete art".

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