Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinskywas an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorshipat the University of Dorpat—Kandinsky began painting studiesat the age of 30...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth16 December 1866
CityMoscow, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.
Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.
When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble...
A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.
Color transmits and translates emotion.
A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.
Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...
Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.