The document discusses several modern abstract artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Klee. It provides biographical information on each artist and summarizes how their styles evolved to incorporate abstraction. Kandinsky's paintings became more colorful and loosely organized after being exposed to Fauvism in Paris. Around 1913, he began creating the first totally abstract works with no reference to the physical world. Mondrian is known for his simplified compositions using primary colors, black, white, and gray in straight lines and right angles embodying a spiritual belief in harmony. Klee was influenced by music and created works known for their imaginative dream images and wit belonging to no specific art movement.

1. Focus on Balance, Movement, and Emphasis

2. Courbet, Artist’s
Studio, 1855.

3. E. Alice Austen.
1888.

4.  Wassily Kandinsky was born in
Moscow in 1866, and studied art
in Munich.
 In 1909, after a trip to Paris
during which he was introduced
to the works of the Fauve artists
Henri Matisse, Georges Braque,
Andre Dérain and Maurice de
Vlaminck, his paintings became
more highly colored and loosely
organized.
 Around 1913 he began working on
paintings that came to be
considered the first totally
abstract works in modern art; for
they made no reference to or
described objects in the physical
world.

5. Improvisation.
Ladies in Crinolines.

7. Untitled.

8. Circles.

9. Circles.

10. Several Circles.

11.  1872 – 1944, Born in Holland.
 painter who was an important
leader in the development of
modern abstract art and a major
exponent of the Dutch abstract-
art movement known as De Stijl
(“The Style”).
 In his mature paintings,
Mondrian used the simplest
combinations of straight lines,
right angles, primary colours,
and black, white, and gray.
 The resulting works possess an
extreme formal purity that
embodies the artist’s spiritual
belief in a harmonious cosmos.

12. Tree.
And still, Tree. (1912)

13. Composition in Red.
Broadway Boogie-Woogie.

14. Around 1. Around 2.

15.  A German citizen, Klee was born in
Münchenbuchsee, near Bern,
Switzerland, on December 18, 1879,
and in 1898 moved to Munich,
where he studied art at a private
school and at the Munich Academy.
He grew up in a musical family and
was himself a violinist.
 Swiss painter, watercolorist, and
etcher, who was one of the most
original masters of modern art.
Belonging to no specific art
movement, he created works known
for their fantastic dream images,
wit, and imagination.

16. Harbor.

17. Viaduct. Highway.

18. Chess.

23. Project  Use your value spheres from the first
Objectives
unit to create either a non-objective
EQ: How can an composition or an abstract composition
artist create with the following:
meaning through
 A composition with Visual Movement
abstraction and
non-object based on Balance
painting?  An obvious area of Emphasis
 A color scheme that completes the
composition
 Creative use of shape
 Good collage construction