Abstract Painting 0.0 / 5 ? History of Art20th centuryA2/A-levelAQA Created by: epearce1998Created on: 19-06-17 13:21 Kandinsky 'Composition VII' (1913) Description Biblical flood, spiritual rebirth as talked about in 'Concerning the Spiritual on Art' Semi circles, twisting lines, bursts of colour, forms evoking violence and choas Contrast of light/dark, strong diagonal, acute angles yellow, right angles red Some recognisable features in boats, waves, sand dunes and ladder = piano keys Influences Wagner concert 1869 'saw all the colours in my mind...wild almost crazy lines', The Ring Title- music, tries to do visually what music does spiritually, links to Shoenberg Fauvists in use of colour, Surrealists in dreams as subject, Miro in biomorphic forms Context Blue Rider Expressionist group- linked to spirituality and abstraction, mystical theoscopy Synathesia with linking music and visuals, condition Kandinsky may have had Time of political change- Russian Revolution, WW1, rise of Nazis 1 of 3 Miro 'Catalan Landscape: The Hunter' (1923) Description Stick figure of hunter, triangle head, smokes pipe, heart and gentials, holds rabbit and gun Catalan and French flags cros, balanced by Spanish, squiggly poo juxtaposed by triangle Stretched out fish, eats insect, pees as it flies away, everything eats, is eaten or excretes Central eye- source of creative imagery, everything a symbol e.g. tree a circle and leave Style Unconcious imaginings, stream of conscience, automatic, child-like and made up Flat, lack of depth, repeated forms, abstract vision rather than realism of Surrealists Emphasis on process- dream painting not a painted dream Context Jung's origins of symbols, links to Freud, symbols embedded in culture therefore meaningful Microscopic biology, links to scientists, Motherwell: 'breathes eroticism with freedom' Sard = Spanish dance, memories from childhood, links to naive art e.g. Cheval Palais Ideal 2 of 3 Mondrian 'Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue and B Description Restricted to 3 primary colours, grid of black vertical/ horizontal lines on white background Rectangular planes 'locked' and black 'scaffold', pure and simple, black doesn't always reach Variations of texture and white, not uniform, some tinged with blue and yellow Context De Stijl group- abstract aesthetic, 1920 Neo-Placticism- expression in abstract form via straight lines/ primary colour, mostly asymmetrical Mondrian interested in theosophy and believed work had quasi-mystic content Art reflecting great, universal truth beyond everyday experience Symbolism Yellow= sun, blue = sky, red = earth, horizontal = earth and vertical = sun rays Horizontal = male principle, vertical = female Idea that universal dualisms should be balanced, order harmony and equalibrium 3 of 3
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