Reflection

Kandinsky was a deeply spiritual and sensitive artist with a highly delicate sense of colour - and quite frankly, I am rather not. Certainly I don't have much care for spirituality and the like, and maybe that's the sort of thing you need to give your paintings a special something, an extra kick or who knows what. 

Certainly using actual oil paints would have helped create a more convincing texture in the artwork, but I had only so much time. My recreation was done with a tablet and Adobe Photoshop CS6. Relatively fancy tools, actually, but oil is more suitable for something like this. Some circles were drawn with the help of the software, and some freehand - no doubt in oil painting the uniform application of oil paints across a canvas surface into a perfect circle would be far more impressive, but some extent of the style was captured, I think. The weakest part of the piece is clearly the composition of the circles - and the clear impression of a frame at the edges by the stronger colors perhaps seems to cage the rest of the content in somewhat, whereas in Several Circles the elements seem free to move about as they please. 

Lastly, the issue with digital artwork is of course, the mixing of the colors. There's something very intuitive about mixing oil paints, but digitally the idea is harder to grasp for me. I can still select matching colors and generally get the hue I want, but the resulting effect is never quite as I imagined. This is probably because I have only a rudimentary grasp of color theory (Kandinsky, I can imagine, was a master of color theory) and still lack much practice with colored artwork.

I do like Kandinsky's works, but I confess that I often feel rather skeptical regarding abstract artwork, even if not less-traditional ones (I highly recommend the "I could do that" video in Sarah Bien's project, which I showed her in an attempt to convince her that art is more than technical skill - than beautiful scenery or naked ladies on a canvas being collected by the disgustingly wealthy). 

That said, I could do with some feedback too. If you glean some meaning or feel any sort of reaction towards my recreation, I'd love to hear it. Maybe it'll help me understand how this works.