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Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944 : a revolution in painting /

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-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...

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Main Authors: Düchting, Hajo (Author)
Group Author: Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944 (Translator); Lehtpere, Ilmar
Published: Taschen,
Publisher Address: Köln :
Publication Dates: [2012]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
German
Subjects:
Kandinsky, Wassily, > 1866-1944,
Painters > Russia (Federation) > Biography.
Peintres > Russie > Biographies.
Painters.
Russia (Federation)
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Summary: The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-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 Blauer Reiter in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the First Abstract Watercolour of 1910. In his 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 colour through the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything must be sacrificed to pure colors. Kandinsky was the first to realise this and thus to influence a whole range of artists.
Item Description: Translated from the German.
Includes chronology.
Carrier Form: 95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
ISBN: 9783836531467
3836531461
Index Number: ND699
CLC: J233(712
Call Number: J233(712)/D832
Contents: Kandinsky's beginnings: "Mother Moscow", 1866-1896 -- Metamorphosis: Kandinsky in Munich, 1896-1911 -- Breakthrough to the abstract: "der Blaue Reiter", 1911-1914 -- Russian intermezzo -- Point and line to plane: Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, 1922-1933 -- Biomorphic abstraction: Kandinsky in Paris, 1934-1944 -- Picture analysis: Red Spot II -- Wassily Kandinsky: a chronology.

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