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Vasily Vasilyvich Wassily Kandinsky
(Dec.4,1866, Moscow - Dec.13,1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr.) Russian Oil Painting Artist Biography.
Vasily Vasilyevich Wassily Kandinsky spent his early childhood in Odessa. His parents played the piano and the zither and Kandinsky himself learned the piano and cello at an early age. The influence of music in his oil paintings cannot be overstated, down to the names of his oil paintings such as Improvisation 7, Composition X. The concept that color and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton. Kandinsky used color in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre, hue with pitch and saturation with the volume of sound. In 1886, he enrolled at the University of Moscow, chose to study law and economics and after passing his examinations, lectured at the Moscow Faculty of Law. He enjoyed success not only as a teacher but also wrote extensively on spirituality, a subject that remained of great interest and ultimately exerted substantial influence in his work. In 1895 Kandinsky attended a French Impressionist exhibition where he saw Claude Monet Haystacks at Giverny. He stated, "It was from the catalog I learned this was a haystack. I was upset I had not recognized it. I also thought the painter had no right to paint in such an imprecise fashion. Dimly I was aware too that the object did not appear in the picture..." Soon thereafter, at the age of thirty, Kandinsky left Moscow and went to Munich to study life-drawing, sketching and anatomy, regarded then as basics for an artistic education.
Ironically, Kandinsky's work moved in a direction that was of much greater abstraction than that which was pioneered by the Impressionists. It was not long before his talent surpassed the constraints of the art school and he began exploring his own ideas of oil painting "I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could..." Now considered to be the founder of abstract art, his work was exhibited throughout Europe from 1903 onwards and often caused controversy among the public, the art critics and his contemporaries. An active participant in several of the most influential and controversial art movements of the 20th century, among them the Blue Rider which he founded along with Franz Marc and the Bauhaus which also attracted Paul Klee. Kandinsky continued to further express and define his form of art, both on canvas and in his writings. His reputation became firmly established in the United States through numerous exhibitions and his work was introduced to Solomon Guggenheim, who became one of his most enthusiastic supporters.
Spending the years between 1914 and 1921 in Russia, Kandinsky continued painting, teaching and organizing exhibitions for collective groups. By the 1920s his own work moved away from an expressionistic style and turned towards the simple and geometric, reflecting principles of the Bauhaus design where he was a significant influence from 1922 until it was closed in 1933 by the Nazis. In 1933, Kandinsky left Germany and settled near Paris, in Neuilly. The paintings from these later years were again the subject of controversy. Though out of favor with many of the elders of Paris's artistic community, younger artists admired Kandinsky. His studio was visited regularly by Miro, Arp, Magnelli and Tauber.
Kandinsky continued painting almost until his death in June, 1944, his unrelenting quest for new forms which carried him to the very extremes of geometric abstraction have provided us with an unparalleled collection of abstract art. Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential abstract art pioneers and is considered to be the founder of abstract art. His works continue to significantly impact art of the to this day, with his organization of space and sense of movement within composition, therefore his inclusion as one of the worlds artist.
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Composition X
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Improvisation 7
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St George
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Square with Concentric Rings
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