Wassily Kandinsky: A revolution in painting (Taschen)
by Hajo Düchting
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The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blane Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the First Abstract Watercolor of 1910. In his show more theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of color the rough the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colors." Kandinsky was the first to realize this and thus to influence a whole range of artists. show lessTags
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Kandinsky was een Russische kunstenaar die bekend is geworden met zijn abstracte schilderijen. Van alle abstracte kunstenaars is Kandinsky een van de door mij meest geliefde kunstenaars.
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- Wassily Kandinsky: A revolution in painting (Taschen) (Taschen)
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- 1991 (original German) (original German); 2007 (English) (English)
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- Wassily Kandinsky
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- Kandinsky's work, his achievements in search of a new form of expression in painting, indeed a new conception of art in general, may still strike us as enigmatic and volatile, as if based on no recognizable premise.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But the resources of Kandinsky's ideas and theories have not yet been exhausted.
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