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| By Joan Campàs MARIONA PALOU DECEMBER 13, 2019 kandinski-composicio-iv kandinski-composicio-iv On the 75th anniversary of Kandinsky's death (4-12-1866 to 13-12-1944), Joan Campàs, Professor of Arts and Humanities at the UOC, invites you to take a tour of various works by the UOC. artist and discover some aesthetic approaches necessary for the understanding of his work and artistic context. - How to look at an abstract painting? first-watercolor-abstract-kandinsky Vasili Kandinsky: First Abstract Watercolor, circa 1912. Watercolor. 50 x 65 cm. Georges Pompidou Center, Paris. Let's assume that we are at the Center Pompidou in Paris, in front of a painting by Kandinsky, and we begin to comment on what we see, what it suggests, what it represents, how it impacts us ..., in short, how we can position ourselves as to spectators.
And these could be some of the contributions (thanks colleagues): I see everything from flowers and nuts scattered on the ground I find some beautiful colors but it doesn't catch my eye and I would keep walking it reminds me of a industry mailing list seen from above, with houses, trees, paths… it's nailed to my grandmother's tablecloth, and also to a wrapping paper I have the same feeling as when I was listening to an improvised jazz band I am attracted to composition, the play of interrelationships between paint stains, fragmented lines is an aquarium of jellyfish and other species of fish and crustaceans it suggests to me a set of immaterial forms floating inside a liquid …… It is clear that there are many readings / interpretations, but there is one work.
But what does it mean to know how to read a work of art? Let's practice in the following examples: - What does it mean to read a work of art? An analysis and a tour of some of Kandinsky's outstanding works kandinski-oriental-1909 Vassili Kandinski: Oriental, 1909. Oil on canvas. 69.5 x 96.5 cm. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. mirar-kandinski-joan-campas-oriental-1911 Vassili Kandinski: Improvisation 19, 1911. Oil on canvas. 120 x 145 cm. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. Let's start with a small comparison between two works by Kandinski:
And these could be some of the contributions (thanks colleagues): I see everything from flowers and nuts scattered on the ground I find some beautiful colors but it doesn't catch my eye and I would keep walking it reminds me of a industry mailing list seen from above, with houses, trees, paths… it's nailed to my grandmother's tablecloth, and also to a wrapping paper I have the same feeling as when I was listening to an improvised jazz band I am attracted to composition, the play of interrelationships between paint stains, fragmented lines is an aquarium of jellyfish and other species of fish and crustaceans it suggests to me a set of immaterial forms floating inside a liquid …… It is clear that there are many readings / interpretations, but there is one work.
But what does it mean to know how to read a work of art? Let's practice in the following examples: - What does it mean to read a work of art? An analysis and a tour of some of Kandinsky's outstanding works kandinski-oriental-1909 Vassili Kandinski: Oriental, 1909. Oil on canvas. 69.5 x 96.5 cm. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. mirar-kandinski-joan-campas-oriental-1911 Vassili Kandinski: Improvisation 19, 1911. Oil on canvas. 120 x 145 cm. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. Let's start with a small comparison between two works by Kandinski: