1. Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944

2. I applied streaks and blobs of colours onto the canvas with a palette knife and made them sing with all the intensity I could Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. Wassily Kandinsky

3. Born in Moscow, Russia in 1866. Was a lecturer in Law at University,(1895) in Russia but gave up his job to study painting in Munich. He was a member of the avante-garde painting group called the Blue Rider. Show his abstract style of paintings with the group.

4. Kandinsky was very spiritual about his art making. He was commented as saying, That his belief in art is based on the harmony of colour and form. He believed that every colour had an inner voice and a meaning.

5. He carefully plans each painting to express, through the colours and abstract forms, exactly the feelings and spiritual ideas he wishes to communicate.

6. Wassily Kandinsky. Volga Song. 1906. Tempera on cardboard. 49 x 66 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

7. Russian Woman in a Landscape (1906)

8. Old Town II

9. Gabriele Munter

10. Gabriele Munter Painting in Kallmunz

11. Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel

12. Picture XVI; The Great Gate of Kiev

13. Improvisation 26 (Oars) Oil on canvas, 1912 42.1" x 38.2

14. Study for Painting with White Lines (Bild mit weissen Linien), 1913. Watercolor, india ink, and pencil on paper, 15 11/16 x 14 1/8 inches

15. Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) 1913; Oil on canvas, 145 x 119.7cm (57 x 47 in);

16. Small Pleasures 1913

17. Composition VII

18. To The Unknown Voice

19. Wassily Kandinsky, White Line, No. 232, oil on canvas, 1920.

20. Composition VIII 1923

21. On White II 1923

22. Wassily Kandinsky, Black and Violet, oil on canvas, 1923.

23. Contrasting Sounds 1924

24. Yellow, Red, Blue 1925

25. Wassily Kandinsky, Several Circles, oil on canvas, 1926.

26. Wassily Kandinsky, Softened Construction, oil on canvas, 1927.

29. Red Oval

30. On Points

31. Dominant Curve

32. Decisive Pink

33. Capricious

34. Around the Circle

35. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition X, oil on canvas, 1939.

36. Composition: Storm Guided student questions What colours do you see? What colours do you see the most of? What types of lines do you see? Does anything in this painting remind you of a storm? How does this painting make you feel? Is there any place in this painting that seems restful to you? How? Would you like to be standing in the middle of this painting? What do you think it would feel like? Why?