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Wassily Kandinsky, Russian in full Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky, born 1866, Moscow, Russia, died 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula - 1909
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Kandinsky is one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting.
Autumn Landscape with Boats -
1908
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After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential #GermanExpressionism group Der Blaue Reiter & focused on painting. abstracts.
Blaue Reiter - 1903
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His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic (e.g., Tempered Γlan, 1944).
Improvisation 6 (African) - 1909
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His family was comfortable & enjoyed traveling often to Venice, Rome, Florence, the Caucasus, and the Crimean Peninsula.
Winter Landscape - 1909
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In 1871, Kandinskyβs parents settled in Odessa. There he completed his secondary schooling & his hobbies included performing on the piano and the cello.
Odessa Port - 1898
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He also enjoyed painting & later recalled, he felt each color had a mysterious life of its own.
Der Blaue Berg (The Blue Mountain) (1908-09)
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He studied law & economics at the University of Moscow.
Gabriele Munter, Kallmunz
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In 1889 he traveled to the province of Vologda & he returned with a lasting interest in the often garish, nonrealistic styles of RU folk painting.
Cemetery & Vicarage In Kochel, Summer Landscape - 1909
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During that same year he discovered the Rembrandts in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg & later he visited Paris and devoured the museums there.
Murnau, Dorfstrasse - 1908
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In 1893 Kandinsky earned a degree the equivalent of a doctorate.
Murnau Burggrabenstrasse 1 - 1908
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1909. Wassily Kandinsky. Cemetery And Vicarage In Kochel
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Wassily Kandinsky - Lake Starnberg - 1908
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Kandinsky taught for a while & later accepted a post as the director of the photographic section of a Moscow printer.
Composition IV - 1911
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In 1895, the year before he turned 30, he attended an impressionist exhibit, which influenced his work. See Odessa Port above.
Composition V - 1911
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On display were works by Manet, Degas, and Renoir, but the piece that inspired him the most was Monetβs Haystacks at Giverny.
Influencer
Claude Monet - Haystacks at Giverny - 1884
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Improvisation Deluge - 1913
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He hated the out-of-focus aspect of Monetβs Haystacks at Giverny, and how the haystack hardly seemed there.
Lady with Flower - 1917 - Glass painting
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While not wholly successful, I love seeing his experimentation in this painting, it is almost like he was trying his hand at surrealism.
Ship - 1918 - Reverse glass painting
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Composition #218 (Two Ovals)
1919
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Composition #224 (On white)
1920
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In 1896, he turned down a professorship in jurisprudence at the University of Dorpat (later called Tartu), in Estonia.
White Zig-Zag - 1922
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Instead he jumped on a train headed for Germany with the intention of becoming a painter. Good decision!
Composition VIII - 1923
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In Germany he enrolled in a private school in Munich run by Anton AzbΓ©.
Black and Violet - 1923
About Anton AzbΓ©:
britannica.com/biography/Wassβ¦
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Two years of study under AzbΓ© were followed by his enrollment at the Munich Academy in the class of Franz von Stuck.
Circles in a Circle - 1923
About Franz von Stuck:
britannica.com/biography/Franβ¦
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Kandinsky graduated in 1900 and during the next few years, achieved moderate success.
Black Relationship - 1924
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Black Accompaniment - 1924
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Capricious Line - 1924
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Quiet Pink - 1924
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Starting from a base in 19th-century realism, he was influenced by Impressionism & by the decorative effects of Art Nouveau (called Jugendstil in Germany).
Above and Left - 1925
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He was also intrigued by Pointillism and by the vivid unrealistic color of central European Expressionism and French Fauvism, which you can see clearly in his 1908 to 1913 work.
Swinging - 1925
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He exhibited with various groups that had emerged all over Europe, such as Berlin Sezession, the Paris Salon dβAutomne & Salon des IndΓ©pendants.
Several Circles - 1926
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In 1902 he became president of the Munich Phalanx group.
Soft Hard
1927
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Kandinsky led the Dresden group that called itself Die BrΓΌcke (βThe Bridgeβ).
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Launelinie - 1927
Watercolor & Indian ink on paper
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In 1903 in Moscow he had his first one-man show, followed the next year by two others in Poland.
Divided - 1928
Watercolor, Indian ink & pencil on paper
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Between 1903 and 1908 he traveled extensively, from Holland to as far south as Tunisia & from Paris back to Russia.
Crossing - 1928 - Pompidou, Paris
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In 1909 he began the process that led to the emergence of his personal style which led to the historic breakthrough of purely abstract painting.
Image with Arrow - 1928
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Kandinskyβs impulse to eliminate subject matter altogether was not due to strictly aesthetic considerations.
Upward - 1929, Guggenheim, Venice
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He embraced an aesthetic in which colors, lines, & shapes, freed from the distracting business of depicting recognizable objects.
Disintegrated Tension - 1930
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Kandinsky is often misidentified as a Supremacist, but his complex & vivid aesthetic does not adhere to their strict rules of austerity.
Gloomy Situation - 1933
His work in the early 30s mirrors his depression.
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Objects that evolve into a visual βlanguageβ of music, expressing general ideas & yet evoking deep emotions.
Striped - 1934
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Kandinsky considered compositions as main declarations of his artistic ideas.
Violet-Orange - 1935
Oil on canvas - (Happier now)
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βJust as symphonies are milestones in the career of a composer, the compositions of Kandinsky represent the culmination of his artistic vision at every moment of his creative career.β
Composition IX - 1936
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"From the very outset," the artist wrote, "that one word "composition" sounded to me like a prayer." The first composition dates from 1910, the last one from 1939.
Silent - 1937
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Kandinsky was by no means alone in his attack on figurative art.
The opening - 1938 - Gouache
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By 1909 the Cubists were turning out fragmented visions of reality that at the time baffled & βoffendedβ the art world.
Composition X - 1939
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Between 1910 & 1914 the list of pioneer abstract artists included many creative painters engaged in challenging established aesthetic norms & rules.
Untitled - 1940 - Gouache
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While Kandinsky may not be the βfounderβ of nonfigurative painting, he remains a significant pioneer of abstract art.
Untitled - 1941 - Gouache
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At Rest - 1942
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Three Pillars - 1943
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Composition - 1944
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Tempered Γlan - 1944
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Additional reading:
widewalls.ch/artist/wassilyβ¦
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Excellent catalog of Kandinskyβs work and much more: wassilykandinsky.net/painting1896-1β¦
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If you like this check out
#PopArt, #GermanExpressionism, #PreRaphaelites, #Dadaism #Surrealism. #Bauhaus & #AshCanSchool #Fauvism #Futurism #Vorticism #Supremacism
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Also please check out:
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