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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works received heavy censure at the time, in later years they would become greatly influential.
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Publish dateJul 13, 2015
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Table of contents
1Kandinsky Kandinsky
2Biography
3and Wassily Silvestrovich Kandinsky.
4First solo exhibition in Moscow.
513 December 1944:
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6Together with Franz Marc, Kandinsky founds The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter).
7Concentration
81899 Oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm Manukhina Collection, Moscow
9The Port of Odessa
10Malevich, in 1879; Klee, in 1879; Picasso, in
11A Street at Sunlight
12KandinskyÊs intellectualism and that of his art
13of an artist alien to vanity and with a desire
14to unswerving movement towards a synthesis
15Farewell (large version)
16especially as concerns philosophy, Kandinsky
171899 – Mountain Lake (p. 9); 1901 – Munich.
18Autumn (p. 19); c. 1902 – Kochel (p. 23). The
19Song (Volga Song)
20Certain passages in KandinskyÊs writings recall
21Colourful Life
22to Kandinsky.
23View of Murnau
24Stuck taught at the Academy of Arts, not in a
25(Merezhkovsky), his
26Borisov-Musatov).
27at the General German Exhibition. KandinskyÊs
28Study for “Church in Murnau”
29Murnau – Grüngasse
30Railroad at Murnau
31Winter Landscape
32as a means of „fishing‰ for motifs which might
33Paul Signac and Felix Vallotton participated in
34Berlin Secession and, later, in the Salon
35Improvisation 7
36The Miracle at Murnau
37Sketch for “Composition II”
38Improvisation 11
39history of art as dramatic and magnificent as
40individual style or a new direction in several
41Country Estate at Akhtyrka
42The often-cited passage from KandinskyÊs
43Final Draft for the Cover of “The Blue Rider Almanac”
44disturbing, individual, and not at all corporeal
45however, the title of Lewis CarrollÊs book in the
46the mirror of VelázquezÊs Venus; the royal
47Improvisation No. 20
48break through apparent reality to what Rilke
49abstraction (a space of no more than two years)
50But most importantly, during this time a