Music
Artist Influence – Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky is an abstract painter who is believed to have painted the first purely abstract works. From the research I’ve done to the information I know, Kandinsky used music to create his abstract works, where he painted what music would look like.
I don’t completely believe this to be related to my work, the idea of illustrating one thing as another is what I’m relating to my work. In my work I want to translate the reality in my head into methods of creating artwork; whereas Kandinsky was creating paintings using music, thus creating the abstract work which is highly known in our world.
The piece I find most interesting of Kandinsky’s is `Composition VIII,’ the variety of colour and use of line, creates a composition in depth to the painting, which would be difficult when trying to paint music.
Text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of Wassily Kandinsky.
Information and pictures found via the content below:
Kandinsky
In-text: (Grohmann, n.d.)
Bibliography: Grohmann, W. (n.d.). Kandinsky.
Final Major Project
For my Final Major Project (FMP), I have decided to do ‘Fictional Worlds’. I’m still not 100% on what the main idea is or how to fully describe it, but what I’m doing is listening to ‘Minecraft’ music and then translating that music into drawing. I started this project looking at mark-making, and the translation between other forms of art (e.g. music, sculpture, paintings.) to marks (drawing). I started to look at Sol LeWitt, and how his methods use precise rules. I then started to look at my previous project Visual Communications, and how I translated that music into drawing; from this, I then started to go straight into drawing the ‘Minecraft’ music.
From then to now, I don’t really know how to explain the project, so I will update you all when I am further on with my work.
Below are a few images of my drawings and a link that will take you to YouTube; the video will contain the music I am listening to. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obgSqOyM8Q0
Visual Communication
This is the Visual Communication rotation; to start off the week I was asked to respond to multiple pieces of music by drawing, painting, and cutting. After the workshop I was asked to focus on one of the pieces of music and use one or multiple methods to express the music. I chose a piece called ‘Window‘ by ‘The Album Leaf’, A piece of music that to me sounds calm, smooth, and peaceful. When I had a day to collect my thoughts in what direction I would take this piece, I had the idea to make a drawing with my own imaginative solar system; I chose this because the piece sounds ‘spacey’ and puts me in my own dream world, floating through space and seeing the planets as I pass by.
So when it came to doing the final piece, I decided to get together four A1 sheets of paper, tape them together and start drawing my imaginative space theme in response to the music. It felt strange to do this as I have never drawn to music before, but it felt peaceful, and relaxing compared to the manic haste of creating a sculpture. As most of the drawing is circular, it felt as though it was a form of ballet, the charcoal dancing across the paper creating a smooth, seamless piece that shows how music can be expressed through something you can see and not just hear.
Below are images of the artwork that I created during this week’s work. The last image is the Final piece.
Railston Artworks 