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Vasily Kandinsky
Vasily Kandinsky è stato uno dei pionieri dell’arte astratta e una figura chiave dell’arte moderna. Nato a Mosca, abbandonò una carriera in legge per dedicarsi alla pittura, sviluppando un linguaggio artistico basato su colore, forma ed emozione. Fondatore del movimento Der Blaue Reiter e docente al Bauhaus, Kandinsky teorizzò un’arte capace di esprimere spiritualità attraverso composizioni non figurative.
Houses at Murnau
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Painting with Green Center
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Vasily Kandinsky. Two Women in Moonlit Landscape (Zwei Frauen in Mondlandschaft) (plate, folio 12) from Klänge (Sounds). (1913)
Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds), consists of thirty-eight prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907. In the woodcuts Kandinsky veiled his subject matter, creating increasingly indecipherable images (though the horse and rider, his symbol for overcoming objective representation, runs through as a leitmotif). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art.
Painting with Troika
Painting with Troika Date: January 18, 1911 Artist: Vasily Kandinsky French, born Russia, 1866–1944 About this artwork Vasily Kandinsky, along with Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, and Alexei Jawlensky, were members of the Blue Rider, a loose alliance of artists based in Munich. Although these artists did not have a common style, they did share a belief in the symbolic and spiritual importance of forms and colors and their effect on emotions and memories.
Vasily Kandinsky. Picture with an Archer. 1909
MoMA, Floor 5, 504 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries Kandinsky studied law and economics and cultivated an interest in ethnography before fully committing himself to his art at the age of thirty. His academic pursuits brought him to Russia’s remote northwestern regions, where he became immersed in the folk art traditions of his homeland.
Vasily Kandinsky. Improvisation. (c. 1914)
Medium Watercolor and pencil on paper Dimensions 14 x 17 5/8" (35.6 x 44.8 cm) Credit Louise Reinhardt Smith Bequest Object number 81.1996 Copyright © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Department Drawings and Prints How we identified these works In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being identified by MoMA staff.
Vasily Kandinsky. Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4. 1914
MoMA, Floor 5 This series of four canvases was commissioned by Edwin R. Campbell, founder of Chevrolet Motor Company, for the entrance foyer of his Park Avenue apartment. In 1913, Kandinsky coined the expression "nonobjective painting" to refer to painting that depicted no recognizable objects. Although preliminary studies for one of these paintings suggest that Kandinsky had a landscape in mind when he conceived it, he ultimately envisioned these works as free of descriptive devices.
Vasily Kandinsky. Two Riders Before Red (Zwei Reiter vor Rot) (plate, folio 4) from Klänge (Sounds). (1913)
Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds), consists of thirty-eight prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907. In the woodcuts Kandinsky veiled his subject matter, creating increasingly indecipherable images (though the horse and rider, his symbol for overcoming objective representation, runs through as a leitmotif). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art.
Vasily Kandinsky. Poster for the 1st Exhibition of the "Phalanx" (Plakat für die erste Ausstellung der "Phalanx")_ _. (1901)
Medium Lithograph Dimensions composition: 18 1/16 x 23 1/4" (45.8 x 59.1 cm); sheet: 19 1/2 x 26 7/16" (49.6 x 67.2 cm) Publisher Kastner & Lossen, Munich Printer Kastner & Lossen, Munich Edition unknown Credit Gift of Mme.
The Art Institute of Chicago
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Image actions Currently Off View Prints and Drawings The Green Line Date: 1938 Artist: Vasily Kandinsky French, born Russia, 1866-1944 About this artwork Status Currently Off View Department Prints and Drawings Artist Vasily Kandinsky Title The Green Line Place Germany (Artist's nationality) Date 1938 Medium Gouache on black wove paper laid down on cream laminated cardboard Inscriptions Signed lower left, in gouache: "L(?)K'38"...
Landscape with Two Poplars
Landscape with Two Poplars Date: 1912 Artist: Vasily Kandinsky French, born Russia, 1866–1944 About this artwork Status On View, Gallery 392 Department Modern Art Artist Vasily Kandinsky Title Landscape with Two Poplars Origin Germany Date 1912 Medium Oil on canvas Inscriptions Signed, l.r.: Kandinsky Dimensions 31 × 39 1/2 in.
Picture With An Archer By Vasily Kandinsky by Vasily Kandinsky
Picture With An Archer By Vasily Kandinsky is a painting by Vasily Kandinsky which was uploaded on December 31st, 2019.
Winter Landscape with Church (Winterlandschaft mit Kirche)
Artist Vasily Kandinsky b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Title Winter Landscape with Church (Winterlandschaft mit Kirche) Date 1910–11 Medium Oil on board Dimensions 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm) Credit Line Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift Accession 37.502 Copyright 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Artwork Type Painting Movement Expressionism
Dominant Curve (Courbe dominante)
Although Kandinsky was forced to leave Germany in 1933 due to political pressures, he did not allow the mood of desolation pervading war-torn Europe to enter the paintings and watercolors that he produced in France, where he remained until his death in 1944.
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The Guggenheim Museum
Yellow Cow (Gelbe Kuh)
During the early years of the twentieth century, a back-to-nature movement swept Germany. Artists’ collectives and nudist colonies sprung up in agricultural areas in the conviction that a return to the land would rejuvenate what was perceived to be an increasingly secularized, materialistic society. A seminarian and philosophy student turned artist, Franz Marc found this nature-oriented quest for spiritual redemption inspiring.
The Art Institute of Chicago
Filled with shifting forms and colors that push forward and recede, this watercolor appears completely abstract at first glance. But deeper examination reveals references to landscape, including a hilltop town illuminated by a deep red sun at upper left. Forced by World War I to leave Germany, where he had lived since 1898, Vasily Kandinsky returned to Moscow in 1914.
Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)
In his seminal 1912 text Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Vasily Kandinsky advocated an art that could move beyond imitation of the physical world, inspiring, as he put it, “vibrations in the soul.” Pioneering abstraction as the richest, most musical form of artistic expression, Kandinsky believed that the physical properties of artworks could stir emotions, and he produced a revolutionary group of increasingly abstract canvases—with titles such as Fugue, Impression, and Improvisation—hoping...
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