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Abstract: Basic Geometric Forms and Primary Colors Associations, from Wassily Kandinsky to Ingo Glass. An inventory of theoretical interpretations, from Wassily Kandinsky to Ingo Glass, was sought and explanations were sought for these interpretations and associations. With the arrival of Wassily Kandinsky at Bauhaus, the theory of the relation between the geometric forms and the primary colors emerged, whereby the yellow color is associated with the geometric shape of the triangle, the blue with the circle, and the red with the square. A test applied to students around 1923 supported this association that influenced the artistic theory of the 20th century. In search of a synthesizer concept, Ingo Glass reinterprets the Bauhaus theory in the nineth decade of the 20th century. In the Ingo Glass artist''s view, the yellow color is associated with the triangle, blue is a color that receives expressivity in particular by associating itself with the balanced shape of the square, and red is predominantly related to the expansionist dynamics of the disc or circle. Through this reinterpretation, the artist simplifies the shapes of the sculptural constructions at the triangle, square and circle, and from the chromatic point of view he limits himself to the use of primary colors. The comparison between the two theories made by Peter Volkvein, the director of Ingolstadt''s Concrete Art Museum, in 1998 stated the need to determine who is right! The history of the arts was thus given a theme by which to articulate the artistic axiom of the relationship between basic forms and colors. The analysis of this issue has not been transformed into a partisan for one or the other of the two theories because we consider the differences between the two interpretations as the consequence of a socio-cultural evolution and the imprint of the environment in which we have formed our artistic sensitivity.
Keywords: Wassily Kandinsky the artist, Ingo Glass the artist, concrete art, basic geometric shapes, primary colors |
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