He had been having an affair with an art student, Gabrielle Munter since He said he could no longer lie to Anna about it. In , Kandinsky along with artist Franz Marc started Der Blaue Riter , a movement specifically aimed at the promotion of abstract art.
It was seen as what art could possibly look like in the future. It ended in , but many great pieces of art came out of that movement. His most famous painting, Composition IV was painted in , it represented the art of the future.
From a a persons point of view, the painting looks like random streaks of colors and lines, but they all have a story to tell. On the left is an ensuing war, on the right is peace.
His overall goal for this work was to depict an apocalyptic battle that will end in eternal peace. It may be a painting, but it is also a musical composition. Kandinsky had Synaesthete, which is a neurological fluke a person associates certain colors with notes or sounds.
Meaning, that Composition IV to Kandinsky only would have had a tune to go with it. In , he broke his engagement with Gabrielle. She moved back to Munich, while he stayed in Russia. He married Nina Andreevskaya, the daughter of a Russian General in Six years later, he and Nina moved to Germany.
He did not agree with the art theories circulating in Russia. During his tenure, he painted On White II in , which is a cross in styles between Suprematism and abstract. After completing his degree in , he started his career in law education by lecturing at the university. Despite his success as an educator, Kandinsky abandoned his career teaching law to attend art school in Munich in For his first two years in Munich he studied at the art school of Anton Azbe, and in he studied under Franz von Stuck at the Academy of Fine Arts.
At Azbe's school he met co-conspirators such as Alexei Jawlensky, who introduced Kandinsky to the artistic avant-garde in Munich. In , along with three other young artists, Kandinsky co-founded "Phalanx" - an artist's association opposed to the conservative views of the traditional art institutions. Phalanx expanded to include an art school, in which Kandinsky taught, and an exhibitions group. In one of his classes at the Phalanx School, he met and began a relationship with his student, Gabriele Munter, who became his companion for the next 15 years.
As he traveled throughout Europe and northern Africa with Munter from until , Kandinsky familiarized himself with the growing Expressionist movement and developed his own style based on the diverse artistic sources he witnessed on his travels. Kandinsky painted his breakthrough work, Der Blaue Reiter during this transitional period. This early work revealed his interest in disjointed figure-ground relationships and the use of color to express emotions rather than appearances - two aspects that would dominate his mature style.
In , he was one of the founding members of Neue Kunstlervereinigung Munchen NKVM, or New Artists Association of Munich , a group that sought to accommodate the avant-garde artists whose practices were too radical for the traditional organizations and academies of the time.
His paintings became more and more abstracted from the surrounding world as he gradually refined his style. He began titling works Improvisation , Composition , or Impression to further stress their distance from the objective world and continued to use similar titles throughout the rest of his career.
Though their aims and approaches varied from artist to artist, in general the group believed in the promotion of modern art and the possibility for spiritual experience through the symbolic associations of sound and color - two issues very near and dear to Kandinsky's heart. Despite the similarities between the group's moniker and the title of Kandinsky's painting, the artists actually arrived at the name "Der Blaue Reiter" as a result of the combination of Marc's love of horses and Kandinsky's interest in the symbolism of the rider, coupled with both artists' penchant for the color blue.
During their short tenure, the group published an anthology The Blue Rider Almanac and held three exhibitions. Additionally, Kandinsky published Concerning the Spiritual in Art , his first theoretical treatise on abstraction that articulated his theory that the artist was a spiritual being that communicated through and was affected by line, color, and composition. What did Kandinsky do before he was a painter? Years in Germany and France.
What type of art did Kandinsky create? Der Blaue Reiter. When was Wassily Kandinsky born and died? December 16, , Moscow, Russia. When did Kandinsky become famous? What was Wassily Kandinsky the first to do? What does movement mean in art? What media did Kandinsky use? Where did Kandinsky live and work? It would be difficult to guess a hand of the same artists in rather objective Crusaders and in such an abstract work, as Composition VII , , despite their common dynamics. Here - a constrained impulse, there - a liberated movement".
At the same time Kandinsky rendered tribute to literary activity. In Concerning the Spiritual in Art was published. Turning upside down the established idea about art in general, this book became the first theoretical foundation of abstractionism. Having come to an idea, that "the purposes and therefore, means of nature and arts are essentially, organically and according to the laws of the Universe are various - and equally great Besides, Kandinsky wrote memoirs Looking Back ; in Russian translation - Stairs , the collection of verses Sounds with 55 black-and-white and color lithographs.
When the World War began Kandinsky was compelled to leave Germany. On August, 3rd, he and Gabriela moved to Switzerland where Kandinsky started to work on the book about "point and line". By November of the same year they had parted. Gabriela came back to Munich, and Kandinsky went to Moscow.
In the autumn of Kandinsky got acquainted with Nina Andreevskaya, the daughter of the Russian General, and he married her in February, During these crisis years of revolution Kandinsky alternated among half-abstract idiom, Impressionist landscapes and romantic fantasies.
In his abstract pictures geometrization of separate elements became stronger, the reason for that is, first, the proper process of simplification, and, secondly - the Avant-Garde artistic atmosphere of Moscow of that time.
In Russia Kandinsky was in the vein of the post revolutionary cultural and political development. From till he cooperated with IZO of Narkompros People's Committee of Education in the field of art training and museum reform. Being its Professor since October, , he designed a special curriculum based on the analysis of color and form, developing the ideas stated in On the Spiritual in Art.
Then, participating in the foundation and management of the Moscow Institute of Artistic Culture Inkhuk he designed a curriculum for it, based on his theory.
However, his opinion differed from the opinion of the Board of the Institute. Kandinsky's opponents - Rodchenko, Stepanova and Popova - are for the exact analysis of materials, for their constructive arrangement and setting. Any display of irrationality in creative process was emphatically denied. Kandinsky, in his turn, vigorously opposed the Constructivist opponents: "Just because an artist uses 'abstract' methods, it does not mean that he is an 'abstract' artist.
It doesn't even mean that he is an artist. Just as there are enough dead triangles be they white or green , there are just as many dead roosters, dead horses or dead guitars.
One can just as easily be a "realist academic" as an "abstract academic".
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