Our class wreath for Remembrance Day is based on Wassily Kandinsky’s work Squares with Coloured Circles (Farbstudie – Quadrate und konzentrische Ringe), 1913. Even though this piece could be considered Kandinsky’s most famous creation, it was not originally intended to be an entire composition. It was a study of how colours interacted with each other in various combinations. Kandinksy was a synesthete–he could hear colours, and see sounds. Colour tells its own story to each person, and to Kandinsky, colour meant more than just a visual component of a picture.
Division 3 chose colours that represent a word, feeling, or idea about Remembrance Day. We removed form and image in order to allow the colours alone to tell the story. Some colours speak of sorrow and loss, others speak of hope, and others tell of the journey through the darkness and into the light.