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WABI SABI FILM // FINAL

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Here is the Link to the Final version of my Wabi Sabi film.

The film, The Tree of Life was my main form of inspiration for this experiment. My goal was to create a film full of scenes of nature during evening time as an experiment for my project Wabi Sabi. The Photographer Rinko Kawauchi is another source of inspiration that I used for the film. Her style of Sublime photography really suited my theme and idea. To create the film I need to capture a lot of imagery of a few second shots of different things such as light, the sea and everyday events. An idea for the film is to use a subject, a model, as the focus of the film. The film would be about the different things that occur throughout the evening through nature. The title, Before the Sun goes works really well with the idea for the film because I am capturing the beauty and specific details that happen in the evening, before the sun sets. I decided to use a subject within the film because it made it more interesting and showed more of a story line by using the subject to symbolize the sun disappearing. In the last part of the film, the subject is seen running away towards the sea. My reason for this was to create a visual and symbolic link between the subject and the sun. As the sun was setting, the subject was also running away. Overall, I am very happy with the outcome of my film, Before the Sun goes, because it ties in well with my overall project and shows a thought process and story line behind my theme.

Analysis, Research

Kandinsky//Spirituality and Color

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Image result for Concerning the Spiritual in Art echo library Wassily Kandinsky

In the book Concerning the Spiritual in Art Kandinsky writes about the spiritual effect color has on a person. In the first paragraph of the chapter The Psychological Working of Color Kandinsky writes about how if you let the eye stray over a palette splashed with many colors it produces a dual result. Kandinsky goes  onto say

“In the first place one receives a purely physical impression, one of pleasure and contentment at the varied and beautiful colors. The eye is either warmed or else soothed and cooled. But these physical sensations can only be of short duration. They are merely superficial and leave no lasting impression, for the soul is unaffected. But although the effect of the colors is forgotten when the eye is turned away, the superficial impression of varied color may be the starting point of a whole chain of related sensations.”

Kandinsky then goes onto write about how different colors and different shades of color can have a different affect to a persons soul. For example hes one red would prove exciting and another would cause pain or disgust through the association with running blood. A bright yellow may look sour because of the association to the taste of a lemon. He also goes onto say there is a link between color and musical notes. For example he says “it would be hard to find anyone who would try to express bright yellow in the bass notes, or dark blue int he treble”. I find this very true when visualizing music personally I picture darker colors for the bass notes and brighter colors for the higher tremble notes.

Kandinsky also goes onto say that chromotherapy, which involves stimulating the brain with different colors, has had definite influences on the whole body. Red light stimulates and excites the heart, blue can cause temporary paralysis. However when tried on animals and plants this no affect. Which Kandinsky goes onto say:

“Generally speaking, color is a power which directly influences the soul.”

“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”