Artists That Inspire…
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky’s art has a confluence of music and spirituality. With his appreciation for music of his times and kinesthetic disposition, Kandinsky’s artworks have a marked style of expressionism in his early years. But he embraced all types of artistic styles of his times and his predecessors i.e. Art Nouveau (sinuous organic forms), Fauvism and Blaue Reiter (shocking colours), Surrealism (mystery) and Bauhaus (constructivism) only to move towards abstractionism as he explored spirituality in art. His object-free paintings display spiritual abstraction suggested by sounds and emotions through a unity of sensation. Driven by the Christian faith and the inner necessity of an artist, his paintings have the ambiguity of the form rendered in a variety of colours as well as resistance against conventional aesthetic values of the art world.
Born
16 December 1866
Moscow, Russia
Died
13 December 1944 (aged 77)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
ANdy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol’s practice spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking, photography, publishing, and performance art. A leading figure in the Pop art movement, his work explores the relationship between advertising, consumerism, mass media, and celebrity culture. His embrace of mechanical reproduction challenged traditional boundaries between high and low culture. He is also credited with popularizing the expression “15 minutes of fame.”
Born
Andrew Warhola Jr.
August 6, 1928
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died
February 22, 1987 (aged 58)
New York City, U.S.
Born Andrew Warhola Jr.
August 6, 1928
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died February 22, 1987 (aged 58)
New York City, U.S.