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    Kandinsky
    Kandinsky
    Kandinsky
    Ebook104 pages43 minutes

    Kandinsky

    By Mikhaïl Guerman

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateJul 13, 2015
    ISBN9781781606094
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      Kandinsky - Mikhaïl Guerman

      1913.

      1. Gouspiar, 1907.

      Oil on canvas, 18.5 x 18.9 cm.

      The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

      Not long ago it seemed that this century had not only begun with Kandinsky, but had ended with him as well. However, no matter how often his name is cited by the zealots of new and fashionable interpretations, the artist has passed into history and perhaps belongs to the past and to the future to a greater degree than to the present.

      Moreover, Kandinsky’s art does not reflect (or, if one may say so, is not burdened by) the fate of other Russian avant garde masters. He left Russia well before the semi-official Soviet esthetic turned its back on modernist art. He himself chose where he would live and how he would work. He was forced neither to struggle with fate nor to enter into conspiracy with it. His struggles took place with himself (Boris Pasternak). The persecutions to which leftist artists in Russia were subjected left him untouched and did not complicate his life. Neither, however was he was awarded a crown of thorns or the glory of a martyr, like the lot of those famous avant-garde artists who remained in Russia. His reputation is in no way obliged to fate — only to art itself.

      The culture of the past was for him precious and intelligible: he was not concerned with the smashing of idols. Creating the new occupied him fully. He aspired neither to iconoclasm nor to scandalous behavior. It could hardly be said that his work lacked daring, but it was a daring saturated with thought, a polite daring that argued with art of the highest quality.

      Educated in the European manner, a man of letters, a professional musician, and an artist much more inclined to reflection and to strict (but not altogether unromantic) logic than to loud declarations, Kandinsky preserved the dignity of a thinker, refusing to dissipate this dignity in petty quarrels within the artistic world. It has been said many times and said justly that the roots not only of Kandinsky’s art, but of his attitude to life in general, lay in Russia and Germany.

      In intellectual terms, especially as concerns philosophy, Kandinsky was oriented towards the German traditions. But notwithstanding his interest in the past, he did not become its hostage, seeing in its wisdom the foundations for understanding and building the future. Kandinsky painted his earliest works when already a mature man.

      Kandinsky was in the zenith of his fourth decade, a time in life when it is not easy to feel oneself a beginner. His first known canvasses date from the turn of the century: 1899 — Mountain Lake (M. G. Manukhina collection, Moscow); 1901 — Munich. Schwabing (The State Tretyakov Gallery), Akhtyrka. Autumn (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich); c. 1902 — Kochel (The State

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