Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.
I watch these tutorial videos in 1.5 speed as she speaks a little too slowly for brain to follow. It is easier for me to listen if it is sped up. How do you learn best? Fast or slow? Thinking about your own thinking and learning is called being metacognitive. We reach a higher level of thinking and learning when we observe how we learn best and think about our own thinking. An example would be asking yourself the following question: What did I used to think about color prior to this assignment and what do I think now about color now that I have completed this assignment?
This assignment allows us to explore color. Think of Color as Kandinsky did; he thought of color as sound and shapes as smell and sound. How do colors vibrate when they come together? What colors create harmonious and pleasing combinations, and what color sets create a tense feeling or a cacophony of colors? Cacophony: a harsh discordant mixture of sounds: a cacophony of deafening alarm bells | a cacophony of architectural styles figurative | songs of unrelieved cacophony.
Wassily Kandinsky experienced synesthesia, a neurological condition where senses overlap, causing him to perceive colors and shapes as sounds, emotions, and sometimes smells. He believed colors had scent, temperature, and texture, even creating a painting titled "Green Smell".
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Synesthetic Experience: Kandinsky, a prominent abstract artist, saw colors when listening to music, and heard music when painting. He associated yellow with the sound of a trumpet and deep blue with a cello.
Forms and Scent: Kandinsky described green as peaceful but "stagnant," a sentiment often associated with olfactory impressions. He aimed for his paintings to be experienced by all senses.
Shapes as Sound: He often assigned specific musical tones, volume, and timbre to geometric shapes, seeing his abstract work as "visual music".
He viewed his artistic compositions not merely as visual art, but as "symphonies" that could be heard and smelled by the viewer.
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