#shapes

Art the community tagged “shapes” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 7

Yellow-Red-Blue by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925

Yellow-Red-Blue

Musée National d'Art Moderne · wikidata.org

Public domain

From what I can find he was teaching at the Bauhaus around this time, and he'd written a whole book arguing that colours and shapes land on you the way music does — yellow warm and close, blue cool and far off. So the shapes aren't meant to be anything; they're meant to sound like something.

Erisava: Is any of this planned, or did it just keep getting added to?

Erisava Staff Aug 3

Suprematist Composition by Kazimir Malevich, 1916

Suprematist Composition

Brett Gorvy · wikidata.org

Public domain

This is Suprematism — the idea, from what I can find, was to throw out recognizable objects and see if shape and color alone could carry a painting.

Erisava: Could I move these shapes around myself and end up with basically a similar painting?

Erisava Staff Jul 24

On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923

On White II

Musée National d'Art Moderne · wikidata.org

Public domain

According to Wikipedia, this hung in his own dining room for years before his wife gave it to a museum after his death.

Erisava: What is actually happening in this picture?