I chose this painting because a Kandinsky painting is heavily referenced in one of my favorite American plays, "Six Degrees of Separation" by John Guare, and I had actually never taken the time to look up what Kandinsky paintings looked like outside of reading the descriptions in the play, and I guess this artist was at the tip of my brain.
I've actually reviewed the play in one of the earlier blog entries. I read it as part of my American Drama course with Professor Donald Pease - quite a bombastic and fantasmic orator - last spring. I realize now that I really loved that class and I wish I had taken more English classes during my time at Dartmouth. Aside from practical concerns or excuses like completing my major/minor, I think I've been a bit intimidated by English classes because I've been terrified that they'll somehow reveal that I'm not as good at the subject as I think I am. Perhaps I'll try to audit another class like that this winter or spring. I love literature!
Here's another Kandinsky I love:
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle), 1913, National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Next blog color scheme, perhaps?
<33333kandinsky!
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