Visual Communication

Images are all around and images can communicate a huge range of different messages. You are used to images that come from internet, and this media has its advantages and disadvantages, as you have shown on your projects.

Kandinsky, the artist who invented Abstraction

  Kandinsky created the Abstract Art at around 1910, due to the expansion of photography and because he had something really especial called SYNESTHESIA. There was another painter that is considered the co-founder of Abstraction, Hilma af Klint.                   

Watch this presentation about Kandinsky: 


                     

Read again carefully the information: 

 Wassily Kandinsky was born in December 1866, in Russia. As a child he loved music and learned to play the piano and the cello. When he left school he became a teacher. 

When he was 30 he went to Germany to learn how to draw and paint. Later, he settled in Germany after World War I and became an art teacher. Twenty years later, in 1933, he went back to France where he stayed for the rest of his life. Kandinsky’s artwork is called abstract. His paintings are made up of lots of shapes. Kandinsky used music to help him work. This helped him to work out which colours and shapes to use. Kandinsky wanted to make people feel an emotion when they looked at his paintings. Emotion means a feeling like being happy or sad. Kandinsky died in December 1944. He was 78 years old.

QUESTIONS 

1. When was Kandinsky born? 

2. Which instruments did he play? 

3. What did he do when he left school? 

4. How old was he when he went to Germany? 

5. Where did he go in 1933? 

6. What is Kandinsky’s artwork called?  

7. What are Kandinsky’s paintings made up of? 

8. What did Kandinsky use to help him work? 

9. What does emotion mean? 

10. How old was he when he died? 

Levels of iconicity

Check this website and discover what iconicity is and the three levels or degrees that exist.

Next, have a look to this prezi presentation for further information.

Some of your great works about iconicity, with the same subject under a realistic vision and an abstract one: