Wassily Wasilyevich Kandinsky Moscow 1866-1944
As a young boy (1871) his family moved to Odessa where he learned the Piano and the Cello.
During his time at a classical grammar school he took a drawing class with a coach. He said later “I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting lifted me out of the reality”
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loved the arts but his parents saw him as a lawyer in the future.
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1886 he went to Moscow and attended Law Faculty of Moscow University. After six years he graduated with Honors.
Six years after graduating he married his cousin, Anna Chimyakina.
In 1893 He became a Docent (associate professor) of Law Faculty.
At the age of thirty he was appointed Professor of the Department of law.
But at this time he decided to end his career as a Professor and devote him self to painting.
In 1896 he entered into Anton Azbe’s (Yugoslavian artist). Which is a prestigious private painting school.
After that, in 1900 that school ceased to satisfy his needs. He joined Munich Academy of Arts and studied under the number one German artist at the time, Franz Stuck.
Franz considered Kandinsky’s work to bright, so for the rest of that year he only did work in a black and white spectrum.
In 1903 he divorced his wife for a young artist he had gotten to know. Her name was Gabriela Munter.
Old Town II
For the next few years him and his new wife traveled across Europe, participating in several exhibitions
After that the settled in the small town of Murnau at the bottom of the alps.
The works of those years were basically all landscapes.
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Kandinsky was always active in the world of art and in 1901 he showed that by co founding the Phalanx. Which was his art group and with in time became an art school.
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At that school he was a professor and taught him self. For four years he was in charge of getting the students art work to the public. So with in the four years he had, he arranged twelve exhibitions.
In 1912 he decided to try a literary activity, his book was named “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”
After this book was published it turned what people thought the established idea of art upside down.
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When the world war began him and his wife left Germany. In 1914 they moved to Switzerland, but half a year later he and his wife separated.
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He went back to Russia and meet a women by the name of Nina Andreevskaya.
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During 1917, the years of revolution for him. He alternated between landscapes, abstractions, and romantic fantasies.
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The Line to Plane came from him returning back to Germany in 1926 and accepting an invitation from Walter Gropius to work at a Higher school of construction and art designing.
Kandinsky’s works went threw some changes during the 1920s
“His palette was full of cold color harmonies which at times, are perceived as dissonance, the circle is used differently, as a sensual symbol of perfect form.”
1923 Composition VIII
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During this time also created Small Worlds rich in fantasy for Propilei Publishing House.
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Small Dream in Red 1925
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Yellow-Red-Blue came from a time when him and a few other artists conducted a few class, where they could paint freely.
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Yellow-Red-Blue 1925
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When the last transformation of his worked happened, he would now only use a combination of primary colors that were worked with soft, refined, subtle nuances of color.
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This technique complicated the foreground, they now appear to have biomorphic elements, which makes the audience at ease with space of the picture and the floating surfaces within the pictures.
Sky Blue 1940
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1939
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1938
Ensemble
1944