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Wassily Kandinsky
One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky exploited the evocative interrelation between color and form to create an aesthetic experience that engaged the sight, sound, and emotions of the public. He believed that total abstraction ofgered the possibility for profound, transcendental expression and that copying from nature only interfered with this process. Highly inspired to create art that communicated a universal sense of spirituality, he innovated a pictorial language that only loosely related to the outside world, but expressed volumes about the artist’s inner
- experience. His visual vocabulary developed through
three phases, shifuing from his early, representative canvases and their divine symbolism to his rapturous and operatic compositions, to his late, geometric and biomorphic fmat planes of color. Kandinsky’s art and ideas inspired many generations of artists, from his students at the Bauhaus to the Abstract Expressionists afuer World War II.
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kandinsky-wassily.htm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Color Tie Temple: Using Projected Light to Restore Color
To start the process of our digital recreation of the colors on Tie Temple of Dendur, we began by using a variety of sources—including the Temple itself, surveys
- f both Dendur and other temples, and objects from
the Met’s collection—to research the original colors of the Temple. Looking fjrst to the Temple, we considered exploring several of the scenes. Ultimately, we focused
- n one scene in which the fjgures and glyphs were well