#abstract impressionist

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Braided Streams After Rain by Tracey-ann Reynolds

Mixed media; fixed charcoal, soft pastel & charcoal, cold wax and oil on 300 gsm archival quality paper.

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Audrey. Christina Major. Contemporary oil painting.

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Fidel Garcia

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Little Egrets Falling. Acrylic on paper.

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Puffin Hummingbird, i call it a Huffin.

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My favorite artist is Wassily Kandinsky. The Russian born artist 1866-1944 is considered by many to be the father of color theory. This painting was made in 1913 called Study for Painting with White Form. It is housed at the Detroit Art Institiute.

Kandinsky struggled to develop a style in which lines, colors, and shapes alone could convey a sense of the spiritual. In this painting, he combined a few recognizable images with the lines, colors, and shapes that he believed possesed spiritual properties.

Kandinski taught design at the world renown Bauhaus School. He also conducted painting classes and a workshop in which he augmented his colour theory with new elements of form psychology. The development of his works on forms study, particularly on points and line forms, led to the publication of his second theoretical book (Point and Line to Plane).

Kandinsky’s analyses on forms and colours result not from simple, arbitrary idea-associations but from the painter’s inner experience. He spent years creating abstract, sensorially rich paintings, working with form and colour, tirelessly observing his own paintings and those of other artists, noting their effects on his sense of colour.

Concerning the spiritual in art

Published in 1912, Kandinsky’s text, Du Spirituel dans l’art, defines three types of painting; impressions, improvisations and compositions. While impressions are based on an external reality that serves as a starting point, improvisations and compositions depict images emergent from the unconscious, though composition is developed from a more formal point of view.[22] Kandinsky compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid—the artist has a mission to lead others to the pinnacle with his work. The point of the pyramid is those few, great artists. It is a spiritual pyramid, advancing and ascending slowly even if it sometimes appears immobile. During decadent periods, the soul sinks to the bottom of the pyramid; humanity searches only for external success, ignoring spiritual forces.

Colours on the painter’s palette evoke a double effect: a purely physical effect on the eye which is charmed by the beauty of colours, similar to the joyful impression when we eat a delicacy. This effect can be much deeper, however, causing a vibration of the soul or an “inner resonance”—a spiritual effect in which the colour touches the soul itself.

As you can see, Kandinski fell deep into the subject and teachings of color and abstract art. He is truely the father of expressive drawing and painting.

  Wassily Kandinsky: My favorite artist My favorite artist is Wassily Kandinsky. The Russian born artist 1866-1944 is considered by many to be the father of color theory.

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The Gate, 1959–1960, collection: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Born March 21, 1880 Weißenburg, German Empire Died February 17, 1966 (aged 85) Nationality German-American Known for Painting Movement Abstract Expressionism

  Hans Hoffman is my favorite modern Abstract Expressionist Artist. A pioneering artist and teacher, Hans Hofmann emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1930. He brought with him a deep knowledge of French art, gleaned from years spent in Paris before World War I, and this proved crucial in spreading European modernist styles and ideas in the United States.

Hofmann believed fervently that a modern artist must remain faithful to the flatness of the canvas support. To suggest depth and movement in the picture – to create what he called “push and pull” in the image – artists should create contrasts of color, form, and texture.

Nature was the origin of art, Hofmann believed, and no matter how abstract his pictures seemed to become, he always sought to maintain in them a link to the world of objects. Even when his canvases seemed to be only collections of forms and colors, Hofmann argued that they still contained the suggestion of movement – and movement was the pulse of nature.

Although renowned for his ideas, Hofmann once said that “painters must speak through paint, not through words.” And his own foremost medium of expression was color: “The whole world, as we experience it visually,” he said, “comes to us through the mystic realm of color.”

Hans Hofmann was the only painter of the New York School that was directly involved in the European modernism of the early twentieth century. In bringing this experience to America, Hofmann’s legacy reached far beyond his own work, and it is through his hundreds of students – many of whom went on to achieve success – that his true impact on art history is felt. Clement Greenberg, who was strongly influenced by Hofmann’s ideas, claimed he was “in all probability the most important art teacher of our time.

 Hans Hofmann Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story

Here are a few of Hoffman’s best artworks.

My Favorite Abstract Expressionist Artist The Gate, 1959–1960, collection: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Born March 21, 1880 Weißenburg, German Empire…