Vanguards: The Abstraction/Kandinsky

Abstract art had its beginnings in Munich Germany from 1910, with the first watercolors of Wassily Kandinsky, its greatest forerunner and who dedicated himself faithfully to follow this style with the idea of thinking about the feelings and sensations of the artist instead of looking Represent reality. It is characterized by lines, geometric shapes, colors, texture without interpretation of anything in particular, one of the reasons why Kandinsky avoided naming his works in his experimental moments.

Composition VII (1913). Wassily Kandinsky

The result of these works reacts in the opposite way to figuration, a kind of anarchy against realism that prevailed even within the avant-garde even though they became much more irreverent in terms of their representations of nature, the main idea of Abstract art was to focus on the expression that the plastic elements could provide over the subject, as Kandinksy expressed, he wanted the viewer to feel the work as an orchestra of music, but with colors and shapes.

He began his career in painting at 30 years of age, leaving teaching to instruct himself in the colors and artistic trends of the moment, traveling to France, Italy, Russia, among other countries to finally settle in Moscow, together with Franz Marc and August Macke, he formed the Der Blaue Reiter group, organizing various exhibitions in Berlin and Munich; He made several writings including a reflexive one entitled "Of the spiritual in art (191)" where he expressed all his concerns regarding the role of the artist and his productions, he said, it is clear that the artist must educate himself in deepening his own soul, taking care of it and developing it so that his external talent has something to wear, highlighting in this way the little interest towards a figurative representation and more towards the sublime sensation of the color and the form that it can cause in the spectator.

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Color Study: Squares with Concentric Circles (1913)

It consists of twelve modules where each of them resolves within itself some circumferences that repeat themselves in different shades of colors, in a chromatic study where they show the primary colors, with their analogues and the different ways to combine it, something that It will help him some time later to project the color in other plastic proposals.

Painting with red spot (1914)

The title gives an idea of where he began to build the painting, making this type of paintings is not simple, it requires having a good knowledge in terms of distribution within a composition, being shapes and stains that do not perceive any natural line should solve the harmony through the use of color, in this case the one that stands out the most is the yellow that is conferred on the bottom.