Mixed Feelings

Abstract

Art and design can be related to anything. It relates to music, television, fashion and even mental health. Throughout the centuries art and design has transformed itself continuously and inherently possesses the ability to do so for as long as it exists. Album art and art related to music is not only therapeutic for the artist but it also effects the consumer as well. Abstraction is an art form that during the 1920's and 30's was completely new and foreign. Now, because of talented artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich, Non-Objective art and Suprematism has influenced a multitude of mediums and practices. Kandinsky and the many other artists that followed him have already proven that non-objective art can be created by utilizing the feelings elicited from listening to music. That is tough to find within the landscape of today's modern art. How can an artist achieve both what Kandinsky did and his contemporaries were able to tap into while maintaining the style and contemporaries of the present? Can modern album artwork become a manifestation of this and if so, how?