How to Spell Kandinsky?

I have been to so many sites about Kandinsky, is work, his life, his philosophies. And I have seen so many different spellings of his first and last name. Almost every website I go to has a different spelling and I honestly didn't even know which one to use for my Art review.
If anyone has any proven way to spell his name, please let me know before I pull my hair out.
Much thanks :)

Kandinsky?

“I applied streaks and blobs of colours onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could...” – Wassily Kandinsky. If he was referring to the collection currently on display at Le meilleur à Paris, an art gallery in Paris, France, then he has successfully obtained his goal of creating not one, but numerous singing canvas’s of color.

The pieces are a collection of his finest work from previous years, certainly not the newest though. One of the pieces was an oil on canvas, completed in 1909, titled “Blue mountain.” His most recent on display was completed just a few months ago, titled “Several circles.” 12 paintings total, all obviously a work of Kandinsky. I say this because there is a certain cohesiveness to the paintings. Each is unique but all are painted with vivid, passionate color, contrasting a dark, soulless hint of black.

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That was an introduction to my art review of a selection of his work between 1909 and 1926. We were supposed to write in the tone of a pompous art critic but my lackluster vocabulary made that a little difficult for me. But I did my best! I wont copy and past my whole review here because of fear that whoever is reading this will loose their interest. The Selection of work I used was art on display at the Guggenheim Museum.
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_71_0.html
^ check it out. Kandinsky is amazing.

(Egg) Tempera paint?

Egg tempera paint is commonly associated with the cheap poster paint, also called tempera paint. I was also one to fall into thinking that tempera paint was the paint to avoid, and if you want to be chic and artsy, use oil based paints. But because of a recent article I wrote for my chemistry class, I was enlightened by the fact that there is hope for tempera paint! Egg tempera paint is actually one of the oldest types of paint out there. With simple ingredients of egg yolk, pigment, oil, and water, you can create your very own, durable paint. Because of the egg base, this kind of tempera paint is not affected by change in temperature or humidity. This is because egg yolks form a protective layer of film almost immediately after application. The protective layer also makes the paint waterproof, making it easy to paint multiple layers one after the other (as opposed to oil based paints that go on thick and take forever to dry). The down side of Egg tempera paint is that you have to make it yourself every time you want to use it, its not smart to try and store egg tempera paint.

For a recipe of how to mix yourself up a nice bowl of egg tempera paint, go here!
http://www.alessandrakelley.com/mixpaint.html

Blogging?

In the past, blogs have grown on me in as an assignment. But that changes now. With loose guidelines, and artistic freedom, the things posted on this blog, from now on are especially important to me. At the same time though, they are completely relevant to our recent (Art)ifacts project in my 10th grade humanities class. The essential question for this project is: What can we learn about the modern world if we view art and its artifacts as a reflection of culture?


If you happen to stumble upon this blog and ask yourself "why would I want to read about a high school students work?" which in my opinion is a very reasonable question, I would ask myself the same thing. The purpose of this blog is to share interesting and thought provoking information that I have gained from not only school, but from the art world around me.
Hopefully I can teach you something.

Enjoy my blog.