Formalism

a. Formalism - Art for the pure purpose of art. Formalism is more of a process instead of a genre. The subject matter isn't as important as the process of producing a piece of art just to produce a piece of art. 

b. Kandinsky fits my definition of formalism rather well, visually at least. It appears that he just uses whatever colors come to mind and just eventually makes a piece of art out of the marks that they have made.

c. Kandinsky's work appears like he just makes a mark with paint and just continues until the canvas eventually gets full and appears complete to the viewer. His work appears to have minimal planning and he was just doing art to do art. I don't know how many of his pieces could have actually been planned out since the marks and brush strokes are so free and flowing. If the edges of his colors were more crisp and less blended then his work wouldn't have fit into formalism near as well.

d. Katherine Sehr has a process that is very similar to mine in the fact that she wants her works to get a point across by the viewer realizing just how much time was invested in the piece. She used ink on a couple pieces and I am becoming very fond of using ink. She also grew intimate with her works because of the sheer amount of time that she spent on each piece at a rather close level.