Abstraction
Mrs. Fox
• Art that uses a visual
language of form, color
and line to create a
composition which may
exist with a degree of
independence from visual
references in the world.
• Line – one continuous mark….
• Shape – line that is closed
(2D)
• Color – Hue
• Texture – surface quality
• Form – Shape with value
added (3D)
• Value – Lightness nor
Darkness of a shape/form
• Space – Positive/Negative
Born: December 4, 1866
Moscow, Russia
Died: December 13, 1944
France
Educated as a lawyer – law
professor until he was 30 years old
when he became an artist and art
professor
Work started out representational
and moved to abstraction
Music theory was the basis for his
abstract paintings
• Late 19th century Art
Movement that used values
of color and light to show
their subjects rather than
painting in fine detail
Fauvism:
Post-Impressionism
movement – known for the
use of intense colors in a
violent, uncontrolled way. The
leader of the Fauves was
Henri Matisse
Matisse is known as the
Master of Color or
The Wild Beast (French for
“Fauve”)
Bavarian Mountains with Village, Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on
Canvas, Semi-Abstraction
Moscow I, Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on Canvas, Semi-Abstraction
Black and Violet, 1923, Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on
Cardboard, Abstraction
Composition X, 1939, Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on Canvas, Abstraction