Cure for Coronavirus COVID-19 - the ART ANTIDOTE

The world is in a panic! I am thinking we could all use a simple distraction from all the various late-breaking news outlets (i.e. television, social media, online news)!!!

Here is my ART ANTIDOTE for all you folks out there…

“YELLOW-RED-BLUE” BY WASSILY KANDINSKY!

I am not an abstract painter, but I do love abstract art! My favorite abstract painting is “YELLOW-RED-BLUE.”

A print of this painting has been hanging above our piano for many years!

It is lyrical, beautiful and organized like a musical composition.

Following is a slideshow that I made based on a Google Arts & Culture article about Kandinsky. It encapsulated everything I love about the painting!

ENJOY….

Indulge yourself, take less than a minute to watch this slideshow! Watch it twice!

Yellow-Red-Blue. No. 314 Wassily Kandinsky

2. There's more to this painting than just a theory of color...

3. ...this turns out to be a small instrumental work.

4-Kandinsky heard high trumpet notes as lemon yellow...

5-... and in shades of blue he heard... Flutes (light blue). Cello (dark blue). Double bass (deeper blue) and A deep organ (deep, solemn blue)...

6-...and isn't that a piano we can hear?

7-Forms and colors were for him the keys ad strings of an instrument. As a child, Kandinsky learned to play the piano and the cello. A trained lawyer, he adored music and gave homage to it by giving h

8-An extraordinary gifted artist, he arranged "color sounds" into "color symphonies."

9-Kandinsky was following the color theory of the German poet Goethe, according to which yellow and blue, which he has placed here in powerful opposition to each other.

10-Between them he has put red to cool the conflict. The bright warmth of red made him think of fanfares. Vermillion of a tuba!

Blue was for him the feminine counterpart...And the circle the feminine form.

13-Red was for him the masculine color and the square the masculine form

14-The character of the colors reflected for him the harmonies and dissonances of a melody.

15-When Kandinsky painted his first abstract pictures, the critics thought he was insane. But all he wanted to do was the touch the human soul.

16-And can't you just feel the small symphony in "Yellow-Red-Blue?"