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Kandinsky and used
This intentional disjunction, allowing viewers to participate in the creation of the artwork, became an increasingly conscious technique used by Kandinsky in subsequent years ; it culminated in the abstract works of the 1911 – 1914 period.
Kandinsky sometimes used musical terms to identify his works ; he called his most spontaneous paintings " improvisations " and described more elaborate works as " compositions.

Kandinsky and colour
Kandinsky taught the basic design class for beginners and the course on advanced theory at the Bauhaus ; he also conducted painting classes and a workshop in which he augmented his colour theory with new elements of form psychology.
Hearing tones and chords as he painted, Kandinsky theorized that ( for example ), yellow is the colour of middle C on a brassy trumpet ; black is the colour of closure, and the end of things ; and that combinations of colours produce vibrational frequencies, akin to chords played on a piano.
Some painters, theoreticians, writers and scientists, including Goethe, Kandinsky, Isaac Newton, have written their own colour theories.
For Kandinsky, blue is the colour of spirituality: the darker the blue, the more it awakens human desire for the eternal ( see his 1911 book On the Spiritual in Art ).
He explores painting's means of form and colour, and studies their effects on the inner life of one who looks at them filled with wonder, following the rigorous and almost phenomenological analysis proposed by Kandinsky.

Kandinsky and compositions
" The phenomenon of ' hearing ' a color or the pairing of two or more senses -- synesthesia -- was also central to the work of Wassily Kandinsky, who was developing his own synesthetic paintings, or ' compositions ', in Europe around the same time.
Visitors can also become acquainted with two compositions by Kandinsky ’ s friend Vladimir Izdebski, who is known for his “ Salons de Paris ” series after the revolution of 1917, and also a unique collection by the famous Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani.

Kandinsky and popular
Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty.
Despite the widespread popular belief that the chair was designed for painter Wassily Kandinsky, Breuer's colleague on the Bauhaus faculty, it was not ; Kandinsky admired Breuer's finished chair design, and only then did Breuer make an additional copy for Kandinsky's use in his home.

Kandinsky and art
Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Kazimir Malevich all believed in redefining art as the arrangement of pure color.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (, Vasiliy Vasil ’ yevich Kandinskiy, ; – 13 December 1944 ) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist.
He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1921.
In 1896, at the age of 30, Kandinsky gave up a promising career teaching law and economics to enroll in art school in Munich.
In addition to painting, Kandinsky was an art theorist ; his influence on the history of Western art stems perhaps more from his theoretical works than from his paintings.
Sadleir's interest in Kandinsky also led to Kandinsky's first works entering a British art collection ; Sadleir's father, Michael Sadler, acquired several woodprints and the abstract painting Fragment for Composition VII in 1913 following a visit by father and son to meet Kandinsky in Munich that year.
From 1918 to 1921, Kandinsky dealt with the cultural politics of Russia and collaborated in art education and museum reform.
As he stated in Concerning the Spiritual In Art ( see below ), Kandinsky felt that an authentic artist creating art from " an internal necessity " inhabits the tip of an upward-moving pyramid.
" Inner necessity " is, for Kandinsky, the principle of art and the foundation of forms and the harmony of colours.
So, the painted work is accompanied with a group of texts that at the same time clarify his work and make Kandinsky one of the main theorists of art.
The Life of Vasilii Kandinsky in Russian art: a study of " On the spiritual in art " by Wassily Kandinsky.
He had achieved some fame by this time and exhibited with Kandinsky ’ s Der Blaue Reiter group in 1912, supporting himself through his art.
He and his colleague, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture.
With artists like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Emma Kunz, and later on Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Agnes Martin, abstract art clearly implied expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious and the mind.
However when he discovered that Kandinsky was in straitened circumstances, barely able to sell his own paintings, Jorn decided to join Fernand Léger's Académie Contemporaine ; it was during this period that he turned away from figurative painting and turned to abstract art.
The preceding art of Kandinsky and Mondrian had freed itself from the portrayal of objects and instead tried to evoke, address and delineate, through the aesthetic sense, emotions and feelings within the viewer.
At the invitation of Wassily Kandinsky, Delaunay joined The Blue Rider ( Der Blaue Reiter ), a Munich-based group of abstract artists, in 1911, and his art took a turn for the abstract Delaunay was also successful in Germany, Switzerland, and Russia.
Itten's works exploring the use and composition of color resemble the square op art canvases of artists such as Josef Albers, Max Bill and Bridget Riley, and the expressionist works of Wassily Kandinsky.
The volume was edited by Kandinsky and Marc ; its costs were underwritten by the industrialist and art collector Bernhard Koehler, a relative of Macke.

Kandinsky and .
And it is thought by many who think about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet, progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso, and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De Kooning.
Among these have been many writers, artists and musicians ; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma Lagerlöf and Albert Schweitzer, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bruno Walter, and Right Livelihood Award winner Ibrahim Abouleish.
By the following year their ranks had grown to include German painter, sculptor and designer Oskar Schlemmer who headed the theater workshop, and Swiss painter Paul Klee, joined in 1922 by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.
This influence culminated with the addition of Der Blaue Reiter founding member Wassily Kandinsky to the faculty and ended when Itten resigned in late 1922.
* 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter ( d. 1944 )
* 1944 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist ( b. 1866 )
These " modernist " landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.
In 1911, Kandinsky painted Bild mit Kreis ( Picture With a Circle ) which he later called the first abstract painting.
In addition to these institutions, there is also an intermediate-level vocational school ( ROC Nijmegen ) and a number of secondary schools: Groenschool Nijmegen, Kandinsky College, Nijmeegse Scholengemeenschap Groenewoud ( NSG ), Citadel College, Stedelijke Scholengemeenschap Nijmegen ( SSGN ), Canisius College, St. Jorisschool, Lindenholt College, the Stedelijk Gymnasium ( formally the " Latijnse school ", founded in the 16th century ), the Karel de Grote College, Montessori College and the Dominicus College.
These include the philosophers Albert Schweitzer, Owen Barfield and Richard Tarnas ; the writers Saul Bellow, Michael Ende, Selma Lagerlöf, Andrej Belyj, David Spangler, and William Irwin Thompson ; the artists Josef Beuys, Wassily Kandinsky, and Murray Griffin ; actor and acting teacher Michael Chekhov ; cinema director Andrei Tarkovsky ; and conductor Bruno Walter.
The artists, with their roots in Dada and Cubism, the abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky, Expressionism, and Post-Impressionism, also reached to older " bloodlines " such as Hieronymus Bosch, and the so-called primitive and naive arts.
It was this academy which Gropius transformed into the world famous Bauhaus, attracting a faculty that included Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Bartning and Wassily Kandinsky.
Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa.
In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Kandinsky was born in Moscow, the son of Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant.
Kandinsky learned from a variety of sources while in Moscow.
Kandinsky was similarly influenced during this period by Richard Wagner's Lohengrin which, he felt, pushed the limits of music and melody beyond standard lyricism.
Art school, usually considered difficult, was easy for Kandinsky.

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