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Kandinsky Watercolor Painting

1. Who was Wassily Kandinsky?

Color Wheel
Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is known for painting one of the first abstract works. Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. A central aspect of his art was what he called inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire. All of those were based on his artistic experiences.

2. What is the title of the song you chose? Who is the artist(s) and why did you choose this song?

The title of my song is Girls & Boys by Good Charlotte. I chose this song because I felt that it wasn't too upbeat and neither too soft, that way I could choose the shapes and lines I wanted in my painting to be merely based on what I could hear in the music. I could kind of get two sides pretty much. And in the song, there are many concrete objects, but what I tried to do was represent them in an abstract way. For example, it talked about cars, so what I did was draw circles within each other to create a wheel. In my painting, I did that quite a lot to give it a more abstract feel and for the viewers to interpret it in different ways. Click here to listen to the song!

3. How does your artwork represent the piece of music you chose? Explain your use of color, line, rhythm, and shape.

I tested out colors on this draft
I think my artwork represents the piece of music I chose because in the song, it talks about how girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money, which is actually a lyric from there. So I decided to put a kind of snowman to portray a human and a target sign with a dollar sign on it. That way you can kind of define it as a deer in the headlights or how a girl's vision of a guy is. As for color, in my painting, you can see that I go a lighter on one side of the painting, and on the other side, there are more layers and darker tones. I chose that to kind of show the girl's point of view on one side and the boys on the other. And another part where rhythm actually helped create the line I created, was the triangles/zig zags that move along across the long line coming from the target. I did that because I remember there was one point in the music where a beat was going up and down, so I decided to kind of move with the beat the music was going. In my painting I mix lots of colors together and graduate washes to create more of an ombre affect too.
Drafts from listening to different songs by the Beatles and many other artists
Another draft 


4. What do you think of abstract art?

The first time we did the Synesthesia activity
I think that abstract art is very interesting and the amazing thing is that the artist may have interpreted everything in the painting as one thing, but with the viewers not knowing the background story of the painting, they could have a completely different interpretation of the painting. And I also love people are able to take such a simple shape and make a connotative meaning with it, and I think that's what genuinely interests people when they look at abstract art.

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