Wassily Kandinsky

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b. Dec. 4 [Dec. 16, New Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia
d. Dec. 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr.
Russian IN FULL VASILY VASILYEVICH KANDINSKY, Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"; 1911-14) and began completely abstract painting. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic (e.g., "Tempered Élan," 1944).
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The Life an Works of Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky was born in Moscow on Dec. 4, 1866. He studied law and political economy at the University of Moscow, but after a visit in 1895 to an exhibition of French impressionist paintings in Moscow, Kandinsky decided to become a painter. Moving to Munich, Germany, he worked under Anton Azbé and Franz von Stuck, studying impressionist color and art nouveau (an ornamental style of about 1890 to 1910). From the very beginning Kandinsky's own work showed an interest in fantasy.
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Wassily Kandinsky: Works Viewable on the Internet
Eine sehr umfangreiche Linksammlung zu den Online-Werken von Wassily Kandinsky in Museen, Gallerien, Bildarchiven und anderen Websites.
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WebMuseum: Kandinsky, Wassily
Steven Brock - stbrock@panix.com
Kandinsky, himself an accomplished musician, once said ``Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.'' The concept that color and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton. Kandinsky used color in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound's character), hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of sound. He even claimed that when he saw color he heard music.
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M o d e r n P a i n t e r s - Wassily Kandinsky
Jamie McKendrick
Kandinsky's synaesthetic experience of 'the colour of music', and his exploration of pictorial harmony and discord, may be as important as 'the spiritual' in the story of his pioneering abstractionism.
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Wassily Kandinsky
- ART MASTERPIECES

66 Masterpieces of Wassily Kandinsky.
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Kandinsky: Compositions
Mark Harden
Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most original and influential artists of the twentieth-century. His "inner necessity" to express his emotional perceptions led to the development of an abstract style of painting that was based on the non-representational properties of color and form. Kandinsky's compositions were the culmination of his efforts to create a "pure painting" that would provide the same emotional power as a musical composition. The exhibition "Kandinsky: Compositions", organized by Magdalena Dabrowski and on display at the Los Angeles County Art Museum until September 3, 1995, presents these monumental works together for the first and possibly last time and provides an opportunity to witness the creative process of Kandinsky.
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Kandinsky
"That which belongs to the spirit of the future can only be realized in feeling, and to this feeling the talent of the artist is the only road.
Theory is the lamp which sheds light on the petrified ideas of yesterday and of the more distant past."
(W. Kandinsky)
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Homage To Wassily Kandinsky
Harry Hilson
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian born artist. A painter who lived through the Russian Revolution and World War's One and Two. He was born in 1866 and died in Paris during 1944. As a young artist Kandinsky lived, wrote and painted in Munich, Germany. There has been a great deal written about Wassily Kandinsky because of the timeless nature of his being. He was a meticulous thinker, teacher and painter who's work will remain alive.
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Kandinsky and the development of a visual language Kandinsky
Paul Bond
Kandinsky—Watercolours and other works on paper: An exhibition at the Royal Academy, London until July 4

Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) stands as one of the dominant figures of twentieth century art. A pioneer of abstract painting, who systematically attempted to convey emotion and feeling outside of direct representation, he was hailed by the leading Surrealist André Breton as having led (with Picasso) the insurrection against imitation in art.

Alongside his better known oils, Kandinsky produced watercolours, gouaches and prints throughout his life. It is this body of work that has been assembled at the Royal Academy and it offers a chance to view Kandinsky's artistic development over the course of his life.
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Wassily Kandinsky: Aktuelle Edition

Kandinsky und der Weg der Farbe
von Alexander Schaumann
Dieser Beitrag thematisiert Kandinskys Ringen mit der `Schwelle´ in der Malerei. An Beispielen wie “Murnau mit Kirche”, “Kleine Freuden”, “Romantische Landschaft”, “Komposition V” u. a. wird versucht, Bezüge zur inneren Welt Kandinskys und zur Biographieentwicklung herzustellen.
 

Wo bleibt das Geistige in der Kunst?
von Christian Gelléri
In Anlehnung an Kandinskys "Über das Geistige in der Kunst" wird das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kunst als Selbstzweck (l‘art pour l’art) und Kunst als Lichtbringer (l’art pour l’âme) diskutiert.
 

Farb-Form-Theorien Kandinskys:
von Clemens Gresser
Synästhesie, Gebrauch und Bedeutung des Blaus anhand zweier Bilder
 

An den Quellen der Kunst - Paul Klee und Wassily Kandinsky
von Wolfgang-Michael Auer
Sinneswelt und Seelenwelt bilden die zwei Quellen künstlerischen Schaffens. Anhand der Bilder 'Komposition 7' und 'Inneres Kochen' von Kandinsky und 'Blumenmythos' von Paul Klee u. a. werden diese Wege veranschaulicht.
 

Gedicht zum Blauen Reiter
von Christian Gelleri

Figurinenkabinett
Rüdiger Appel
12 Motive zum Betrachten und Spielen

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Synesthesia: Do you see what they see?
Brad Lernley
Synesthesia--from the Greek syn, for together, and aisthesis, to perceive--generated a wave of scientific and popular interest around the turn of the twentieth century. Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, himself a synesthete, featured an organ that produced multihued light beams in his symphony Prometheus, the Poem of Fire. To many fin de siecle Romantics, synesthetes appeared to be humanity's spiritual vanguard, closer to God than the sense-segregated masses. "Such highly sensitive people," wrote Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian abstract artist, "are like good, much-played violins, which vibrate in all their parts and fibers at every touch of the bow."
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