What is non- objective design?

-Nonobjective art is another way to refer to Abstract art or nonrepresentational art. -Essentially, the artwork does not represent or depict a person, place or thing in the natural world. -Usually, the content of the work is its color, shapes, brushstrokes, size, scale, and, in some cases, its process.

Kandinsky and Non-Objective Design Wassily Kandinsky- –Non objective artist –One of the most influential artists of the 20 th century.

Kandinsky and Non-Objective Design Visually express his emotions Created ABSTRACT style of painting based on of color and form.

COLOR AND FORM COLOR is an ELEMENT OF ART. FORM is an ELEMENT OF ART.

GOAL: PURE PAINTINGS “PURE PAINTING” –- free of representational images –- no objects, no people, nothing recognizable…

Wassily Kandinsky

ART, MUSIC and EMOTION Wanted painting to provide the same emotional power as that of a musical composition.

Wassily Kandinsky Born in Moscow, December 4, 1866 Around 1913 he began the first totally abstract works in modern art; –no reference to objects –derived inspiration and titles from music.

Wassily Kandinsky Produced abstract and figurative works that had brilliant colors and complex patterns. Taught at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts and at the Bauhaus in Germany.

Wassily Kandinsky After World War I ( ) his abstractions became increasingly geometric in form He abandoned his fluid style for sharply etched outlines and clear patterns.

Wassily Kandinsky Composition VIII No. 260, for instance, is composed solely of lines, circles, arcs, and other simple geometric forms.

Composition X, painted during WWII. 1939

Wassily Kandinsky He was one of the most influential artists of his generation. He paved the way for abstract expressionism.

Red Oval Oil on canvas

On White II, Kandinsky 1923

What ELEMENTS OF ART do you see in the following piece?

ELEMENTS OF ART; Shape, line, color, value, space PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN; Pattern, contrast

What Non-Objective Design Includes Non objective pieces include; SHAPES- circles, squares, rectangles and triangles, shaded or tinted using value through color or tonal changes. Squiggles, splashes of paint, dots, line variations

What Non-Objective design does NOT include Stars and peace signs are recognizable objects…. So they DO NOT WORK!!! No faces, tables, chairs, houses, cars or any kind of object.