Objective Critique

Kandinsky’s work is seen as an abstract painting that uses bold isolated colors to create a texture showing one side of the painting with the warmth or coolness of the color tone, while the other side provides a sense of clarity and obscurity of that color tone. The isolated colors create squares that lead to horizontal and vertical lines seen in the painting that create squares around the color tones. Kandinsky utilized bold bright color values to create contrast in this piece. We see this in each of the isolated patterns where a bright color meets a dark color value as evidenced when blue meets yellow. He also uses the isolated values to create shape that leads to a sense of pattern, balance, unity and variety. We see the pattern of all the squares containing a circle inside of each other, and it remains balanced because it’s a symmetrical piece of artwork.  Through the use of unity and variety, we can see all parts of the piece working together and viewed as a whole. Variety is the difference seen in each isolated shape. Kandinsky displays a tremendously effective use of the Principles of Design and Elements of Art in this abstract master piece.