Painting The Unseen: Abstraction As Personal Creative Practice
Learn to awaken imagination through guided art practices inspired by visionary painters.
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Introduction
This short audio introduction will help you get started. As you listen, gather your art supplies and take a moment to settle in.
This short audio introduction will help you get started. As you listen, gather your art supplies and take a moment to settle in.
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Lesson 1: Wassily Kandinsky - Color and Vibration
In this first lesson, inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, you’ll experience color as vibration and movement. Through guided visualization and creative expression, you’ll translate feeling directly into form.
In this first lesson, inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, you’ll experience color as vibration and movement. Through guided visualization and creative expression, you’ll translate feeling directly into form.
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Lesson 2: Mark Rothko - Emotion and Depth
In this lesson, you’ll explore how Mark Rothko used fields of color to hold and contain emotion. Through stillness and sensitivity, you’ll learn to let color become a vessel for feeling and quiet reflection.
In this lesson, you’ll explore how Mark Rothko used fields of color to hold and contain emotion. Through stillness and sensitivity, you’ll learn to let color become a vessel for feeling and quiet reflection.
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Lesson 3: Agnes Martin - Rhythm and Stillness
Inspired by Agnes Martin, this lesson invites you to find calm through repetition and rhythm. Using line and space, you’ll discover how subtle mark-making can bring steadiness and become a form of meditation.
Inspired by Agnes Martin, this lesson invites you to find calm through repetition and rhythm. Using line and space, you’ll discover how subtle mark-making can bring steadiness and become a form of meditation.
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Lesson 4: Hilma af Klint - Symbols and Trust
In this lesson, you’ll be guided to trust the imagery that arises from within. Like Hilma af Klint, you’ll learn to work with intuition and allow symbolic forms to emerge naturally through color and shape.
In this lesson, you’ll be guided to trust the imagery that arises from within. Like Hilma af Klint, you’ll learn to work with intuition and allow symbolic forms to emerge naturally through color and shape.
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Lesson 5: Sonia Delaunay - Rhythm and Integration
In this final lesson, you’ll bring together all you’ve explored with color, rhythm, emotion, and symbol through the joyful movement of Sonia Delaunay’s work, and create a piece alive with energy and connection.
In this final lesson, you’ll bring together all you’ve explored with color, rhythm, emotion, and symbol through the joyful movement of Sonia Delaunay’s work, and create a piece alive with energy and connection.
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation Klamm, 1914 — Public domain.
This course explores how artists have used abstraction to give form to what words cannot express.
Through story, guided practice, and music, you’ll discover how art can help you process emotion, connect with imagination, and touch the unseen. By the end, you’ll have a set of creative practices you can return to anytime, along with ways of working that feel both personal and intuitive.
Across five lessons, you’ll step into the worlds of five groundbreaking painters. Wassily Kandinsky will guide you into vibration, where color moves like music. Mark Rothko will show you how color fields can hold deep emotion. Agnes Martin will lead you into quiet rhythm, where repetition becomes a form of meditation. Hilma af Klint will invite you to trust the symbols that rise from within. And finally, Sonia Delaunay will bring it all together, weaving color, rhythm, and joy into the fabric of daily life.
Header Artwork: Hilma af Klint, The Ten Largest, No. 2, Childhood (1907) — Public domain.
Music sourced from MusOpen.