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Kandinsky and was
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.
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.
Kandinsky was born in Moscow, the son of Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant.
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.
From 1906 to 1908 Kandinsky spent a great deal of time travelling across Europe ( he was an associate of the Blue Rose symbolist group of Moscow ), until he settled in the small Bavarian town of Murnau.
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.
In 1921, Kandinsky was invited to go to Germany to attend the Bauhaus of Weimar by its founder, architect Walter Gropius.
Kandinsky was one of Die Blaue Vier ( Blue Four ), formed in 1923 with Klee, Feininger and von Jawlensky, which lectured and exhibited in the United States in 1924.
Kandinsky was aware of recent scientific developments and the advances of modern artists who had contributed to radically new ways of seeing and experiencing the world.
Upon returning and seeing the canvas ( but not yet recognizing it ) Kandinsky fell to his knees and wept, saying it was the most beautiful painting he had ever seen.
In another episode with Münter during the Bavarian abstract expressionist years, Kandinsky was working on his Composition VI.
* " Kandinsky was fascinated by the expressive power of linear forms.
The city was also the birthplace of the Bauhaus movement, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, with artists Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, and Lyonel Feininger teaching in Weimar's Bauhaus School.
In the United States, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky.
The Cocteau exhibition was followed by exhibitions on Wassily Kandinsky ( his first one-man-show in England ), Yves Tanguy, Wolfgang Paalen and several other well-known and some lesser-known artists.
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 first collegium was headed by Vladimir Tatlin and included Kasimir Malevich, I. Mashkov ( И. Машков ), N. Udaltsova ( Н. Удальцова ), O. Rozanova ( О. Розанова ), Alexander Rodchenko, Wassily Kandinsky.
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.
The group was founded by a number of Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc, August Macke and Gabriele Münter.

Kandinsky and Paris
Kandinsky then left Germany, settling in Paris.
In 1936 he traveled ( on a BSA motorbike he had scraped together enough money to buy ) to Paris to become a student of Kandinsky.
In 1912 Gabo transferred to an engineering school in Munich where he discovered abstract art and met Wassily Kandinsky and in 1913-14 joined his brother Antoine ( who by then was an established painter ) in Paris.
Wassily Kandinsky: Composition X ( 1939 ) From WebMuseum, Paris.
Paris however, proved a critical and dynamic experience, with Preston revelling in the works of French Post Impressionists, Cézanne, the most architectural of all artists, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky, Delaunay, Derain, Vlaminck and Rouault.
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.
The last, run by the artist ’ s widow, enjoyed the reputation of being one of the most interesting galleries on the left bank of the Seine: it sponsored, among other things, the first exhibition by members of the Paris Committee, known as the Kapists, several one-man shows of Polish and Jewish artists active in France, and Kandinsky ’ s first Parisian one-man show.

Kandinsky and since
But since Kandinsky was Russian, he was forced to move back to Moscow.

Kandinsky and abstract
* 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter ( d. 1944 )
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.
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.
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.
* " Kandinsky calls abstract the content that painting must express, that ’ s to say this invisible life that we are.
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.
For example, the result of flipping a coin, or on her preference for one of two relatively abstract paintings ( commonly, one by Klee and the other by Kandinsky ).
Just before the onset of the First World War in 1914, Gabo discovered contemporary art, by reading Kandinsky ’ s Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which asserted the principles of abstract art.
His uncle was the abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky, about whose work he would write an influential essay in 1936.
He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and other artists.
Orphic painters cited analogies with music in their titles ; for example, Kupka ’ s Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors ( 1912 ) and Francis Picabia ’ s abstract composition Dance at the Source ( 1912 ) and Wassily Kandinsky ’ s Über das Geistige in der Kunst ( 1912 ).
Eckbo was also influenced by the works of several abstract painters, including Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and Kasimir Malevich.
Gleizes ' iconography ( as of Delaunay, Le Fauconnier and Léger ) helps to explain why there is no period in his work corresponding to analytic Cubism, and how it was possible for Gleizes to become an abstract painter, more theoretically in tune with Kandinsky and Mondrian than Picasso and Braque, who remained associated with visual reality.
Wassily Kandinsky, one of the forerunners of pure non-objective painting, was among the first modern artists to explore this geometric approach in his abstract work.
Michel Henry was a student of ancient painting and of the great classical painting which preceded the scientistic figuration of the 18th and 19th Centuries, and also of abstract creations such as those of the painter Wassily Kandinsky.
This is this spiritual quest that led Kandinsky to the creation of abstract painting.

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