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Prepare for viewing in Sydney this comprehensive New York exhibition of Kandinsky’s art. He was a key artist in moving art from the representational to the abstract. He used vibrant colours, abstracted shapes, dynamic lines and compositions offering the viewer an alternative pathway to experiencing art as a spiritual reality like music. He discovered a relationship between colour and sound and music and painting. Explore his art from Russian folktales through abstraction and “The Blue Rider” movement in German Expressionism to the Bauhaus and then on to Paris. He focused on painting the “inner world” throughout his career that spanned nearly 50 years.

DELIVERY MODE

• Online

SUGGESTED READING

• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle
• Duchting, H., 2015, Kandinsky, Taschen
• Kandinsky, W., 2000, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Echo Books

COURSE OUTLINE

• Exploring the full potential of abstraction to create a new language in art.
• The impact of establishing The Blue Rider group within the German Expressionist movement.
• Changing ideas, styles and palettes for nearly 50 years of painting whilst living in Russia, Germany and France.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Understand the relationship Kandinsky sought between art and music.
2. Learn why Kandinsky shared the Symbolists interest in “synaesthesia” where an artist can “hear colours” and see “sounds”.
3. Understand how Kandinsky influenced the American Abstract Expressionists.