Improvisation 31 - Wassily Kandinsky 1913

Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) is an abstract painting by the russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. This painting would be a very poor painting if judged Imitationally due to the crazy shapes and colours in this image. You can see organic shapes in the painting, which represent, or are supposed to represent boats and ships. Though the ships and boats seem to be sailing on a red carpet, it isn't hard to tell that they were drawn on a body of water, which is most likely a Sea, given the title of this painting. The ships seem catastrophic, and judging by the title you can see that the boat/ship like figures and meant to be fighting, or that perhaps there were rough waters. Though this painting is an abstract, you can tell by the shapes, rather than the colours, of why and how this might be a Sea Battle.

This painting is a piece of art which represents the elements of design in a unique way. It represents colour, individually. Colour is an important part of this painting because without it, the essence and message of this portrait will be displayed differently without colour, or which different colours. The artist used warm colours. This painting doesn't use very many lines, but the ones that are used are organic rather than mechanical and are used well because the whimsical lines display an overall different message, and are strong and confident, rather than poor and weak. There are also organic shapes in this painting which also help convey the messages of the artist. The shapes are drawn well, because you can tell what the shapes are supposed to be, and they aren't that different than those of real life. Space is an important part of this picture. This element has some negative spaces, but most are positive and used well as well.

Judged emotionally, this painting isn't one of the best paintings, but isn't one of the worst either. This piece conveys confusion because of the weird and odd, out of this world shapes and colours which are randomly staggered across the canvas. This painting also displays the emotion happiness, as it brightens your mood cause of the warm, and welcomimg shapes and colours. It leaves you with a smile as you look at the painting, because it's so 'out there' you automatically makes you feel a lot happier and filled with joy. This painting is capable of changing your mood, in a positive way and has the power to keep you captivated for a long time.