Abstract Painting As Visual Language

This course explores how Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, Hilma af Klint, and Sonia Delaunay each developed a visual language and guides you to experiment with finding your own. Each lesson pairs a short art history conversation with a guided practice inspired by that painter's approach. You'll work with color as vibration, emotional field, repetition, intuitive symbol, and rhythm. Not to paint like any of them, but to find out what happens when you try each approach with your own hand. A sixth integration session brings everything together and asks what you've begun to discover about your own visual language. Because this is an audio-only course, your imagination does the work a screen can't. You build the painting in your mind before your hand responds and allow curiosity and experimentation to lead the way. By the end, you'll have five practices to return to and the beginning of a visual language that's distinctly yours. Music sourced from MusOpen and Wikimedia Commons.