My favorite among the artworks shown, and new to me, is Yellow-Red-Blue. In reading your post and thinking about that painting, I suspect what I like so much is its musicality, in particular the sense of rhythm created by the interplay of color, shape, and line and their progression across the canvas. I had not really thought about or known much about how his art changed over time, and your post offers a mother lode of information about that in a concise, highly readable, space. I was also reminded, on reading the section about associating music with colors, of a trip to the Guggenheim long ago in which Impression III (Concert) was displayed together with audio of the Schoenberg piece that apparently inspired it. I don’t actually think that painting is one of Kandinsky’s best, but I was completely entranced by the art-music connection. Perhaps even more-so because of that, I often “relate” to his work as visual music. Thank you for the wonderful post!
My favorite among the artworks shown, and new to me, is Yellow-Red-Blue. In reading your post and thinking about that painting, I suspect what I like so much is its musicality, in particular the sense of rhythm created by the interplay of color, shape, and line and their progression across the canvas. I had not really thought about or known much about how his art changed over time, and your post offers a mother lode of information about that in a concise, highly readable, space. I was also reminded, on reading the section about associating music with colors, of a trip to the Guggenheim long ago in which Impression III (Concert) was displayed together with audio of the Schoenberg piece that apparently inspired it. I don’t actually think that painting is one of Kandinsky’s best, but I was completely entranced by the art-music connection. Perhaps even more-so because of that, I often “relate” to his work as visual music. Thank you for the wonderful post!
I really enjoy your investment in the viewer's experience of an image, including emotional and intellectual discomfort.