Transcript Painting - Paul Carney Arts

Introduction
 Of all my painting exercises I love this the most. It is such
fun, very abstract and very creative. Students of all ages
love it.
 I might ask the students to copy part or all of a Kandinsky
painting but this is not necessary .
 I have four pieces of music for the task in this exercise. One
calm, quiet classical piece. A happy, jolly song, a sad,
melancholic piece, then a heavy rock loud piece of music. I
play them several times to the students and work out how
much time I will give them to complete each stage
according to the time I have available in the lesson.
 As an extension task to this I will ask them to develop their
best idea into a painting.
Colour and Feeling
Task: Copy the coloured squares into your sketchbook. Then write next to the
colours what mood or feeling is best described by the colour, then; think of a
musical instrument that sounds most like the colour. For example:
Sunny, happy: Flute
Wassily Kandinsky
 Wassily Kandinski was one of the first
modern artists who painted abstract
shapes to express feelings, rather than
creating pictures of objects and people.
Kandinski loved music, especially
classical music. Often when he painted,
he would listen to music and try to
paint what the music made him feel. He
compared the different musical notes
to the colors of the rainbow. He tried to
paint what the notes would look like if
they were colors instead of sounds.
When Kandinsky painted the music he
enjoyed, the result was beautiful
images that are still appreciated today.
These are the moods and musical instruments that
Kandinsky associated with colour
Yellow – effect Loud, sharp
trumpets
of madness
Blue – Deep, Flutes, cellos,
peaceful
organs
Green Strength, Quiet
stillness
violins
White –
silence
Spaces and
pauses
Black –
unmoving, final
Final pause,
the end
Orange Healthy, Church bells,
radiant
singing voice
Red – alive,
Tuba,
confident, glowing
deep cello
Purple – sad,
morbid
Horns,
bassoons
Yellow-Red-Blue Kandinsky 1925
Composition VI Kandinsky 1913
Painting music
Task: Listen to the music provided. Try to
imagine what mood is being represented
in the piece.
Using shapes and colours only; Try to
represent the piece of music in an abstract
style.
You are not allowed to use any pictures or
symbols. Try out some ideas in your
sketchbook, then develop this into a larger
scale painting.
Painting Music Examples