Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) c. 1913
/ Wassily Kandinsky
According to Wassily Kandinsky, “Painting has two weapons at her disposal: 1) Color, 2) Form.” With only these two weapons, a painter can convey feeling, action, atmosphere, and relationship.
While Kandinsky used this simple reduction to transform painting from representation to abstraction, artists for centuries have used color, line, and shape to depict human beings in motion.
In addition to effort, it is possible to find many elements of Laban’s spatial taxonomy in works of art. Find out more in this month’s blogs.