"thegreenwoodtreegallery:  Wassily Kandinsky - Composition VII Wassily Kandinsky wanted to be free from depicting the things we can lay our hands on because he wanted to portray truths and emotions more profound than those encompassed in a simple object.  He wanted art to be able to go straight into your heart with a power and immediacy like that of music.  And so in many ways, he used musical metaphors for his art.   This painting is called a ""composition.""  Others were ""improvisations.""  In the painting, he chooses orange not because it signifies a citrus fruit, but because it expresses a specific emotion that can't necessarily be put into words.  He chooses black lines not to draw a shape, but because of the depth of feeling they add, and the way they direct the motion of the painting.  He uses these colors like a composer uses notes, and spreads them across his composition in collections that have a certain visual ""rhythm.""  But no color stands entirely on its own.  Instead, Kandinsky places one color next to another so that there's an energy that comes from the combination.  A red next to a green, for instance, creates a very different feeling inside of you than a red next to an orange.  This is something like a visual analog of musical harmony and dissonance.  And with his entire orchestra of colors and textures, Kandinsky's composition leaps and twirls and dances across the canvas like a grand symphony.   When we begin to appreciate the painting's essence, like music, it can touch our hearts in a way that a picture of, say, an apple, cannot."
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