Reflection 1: ‘Compositions’ by Wassily Kandinsky
It was the first time I found artworks highly creative when I saw the series of artwork Compositions by Wassily Kandinsky. Those abstract paintings use geometric patterns and rich colors, constructed with lines, surfaces, and dots. Kandinsky named his work Compositions not simply because they were formed by simple patterns. It has a secondary meaning of ‘composing’ as well. In those paintings, Kandinsky tried to illustrate ‘music,’ portraying music in a visual way. Or in other words, he tries to engage visual and hearing experience and create a synesthesia effect. It is easy to sense that different patterns and colors portraying various sounds and emotions.
First of all, the idea of the abstract art form is highly creative to me: that subject matter was not the only thing that could create value for a painting. Because I think redefining is a critical process of creativity. I see ‘redefine’ as the thinking process of jumping out of the inertial thinking and breaking stereotypes people usually hold about something. Kandinsky’s ‘Composition’ made it even further by creating the synesthesia experience, a combination of sight, sound, and emotion, which differed from the traditional thought that paintings only bring visual experience. In his theory, music is the most transcendent form of non-objective art, and he aims to involve the same effect in his painting. Many innovations nowadays involve a crucial factor of ‘interdisciplinary.’ Every problem people are trying to solve today is a wicked problem that incorporates multidimensional analysis. Kandinsky’s work attempts to bridge hearing experience through the media of painting is a representation of interdisciplinary creation to me.
