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= Wassily Kandinsky =

==== Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was born on December 16th 1866. Although he was born in Moscow Russia, he spent most of his childhood living in Odessa. At an early age Wassily learned to play the piano and cello. His parents played the piano and the zither, which is a musical string instrument commonly found in German. In 1886, he enrolled at the University of Moscow he chose to study law and economics. He enjoyed success not only as a teacher but also writing spirituality experiences. His faith greatly influenced his work. ====

==== In 1895 Wassily went to a French Impressionist exhibition where he saw Monet's “Haystacks at Giverny.” He thought the painting was poorly executed. So at the age of thirty he moved to Munich to study life-drawing, sketching anatomy. After studying he branched out to his own style, which was expressionism. Expressionism is a manner of painting, drawing, or sculpting with intensified colors and shapes. Wassily loved being able to express himself through his art and using an array of colors. Most of his work was abstract. His artist media was mostly oil paintings. ====

==== In 1903 his work started to spread to out of Germany. Once his canvases got to America his work was introduced to Solomon Guggenheim. Solomon Guggenheim soon became Wassily’s biggest supporter. In 1933 he moved to a town near Paris, France. He set up a studio and had many young eager artists learned bucket loads from Wassily. Wassily Kandinsky painted up until his death in June, 1944. ====

Wassily Kandinsky was an amazing, hard working, educated, and secure individual. His art should, and I believe will always be honored for its individuality. picture taken from: http://www.artexpression.com/search.exe



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For my Artist Study Project I picked the artist, Wassily Kandinsky. I choose to do my own version of Wassily’s artwork called color studies. So I made my own and named it color square. Wassily used watercolors so I used watercolors. In his painting he blended his colors so blended mine. That’s why I used watercolors. I tried to blend the colors and I think it turned out good. ======

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I was inspired by my artist because I saw a piece of his artwork and I liked it so I wanted to learn more about him and about his work. I enjoyed working on his piece of artwork because it was fun to see what Wassily liked to paint. I think this piece was successful. Step by step I make a sketch in my sketchbook. I wanted it to be square. Then I made lines with pencil and used those as guidelines. Then I painted. And while I painted I mixed the colors. I did that while it was wet so it would be easier. Then at the end I glued it to a black board to make it look better. ======

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I had a lot of fun trying to paint a piece of Wassily Kandinsky’s artwork. I would like to try some of his other pieces of artwork. I’m glad I picked Wassily Kandinsky as my artist. I really liked this project I would like to do it again. And I would like to try another artist to see some other artwork. ======