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Kandinsky | Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky: A Pioneer of Abstract Art
Wassily Kandinsky was born Moscow in 1866, the son of Lidia Tikheeva and Vasily Kandinsky, a successful tea merchant. Kandinsky’s parents divorced in 1871 and he ended staying with his father’s side of the family in Odessa. His grandmother provided Kandinsky with vital elements to his early education. She not only taught him to speak German, she taught him the fairytales from his family heritage of Germany, Russia and Mongolia. His mother’s sister, Elisabeth Tikheeva, became his main caretaker. She taught him to play the piano and the cello, as well as to paint and draw. “I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting, lifted me out of the reality,” he wrote. Even as a child, Kandinsky had a unique perception of color and wrote, “Each color lives by its mysterious life.”
In 1886 Kandinsky began studying law in Moscow and went on to complete his degree, graduating with honors. In 1891 he married his cousin, Anna Chimyakina. His new wife thought she was settling down as a lawyer’s wife, but Kan
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The exhibition was exposed in 2014 at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, before traveling to Milwaukee and Nashville, United States. In Madrid it will be seen in CentroCentro until February 28, 2016.
Completed almost 150 years since the birth of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), pioneer of abstract art and one of the leading avant-garde painters, this retrospective covers his artistic and spiritual path through about 100 masterpieces - paintings, watercolors and prints - from the collection of the Pompidou Centre. The exhibition is one of the largest monographs that have been made in Spain of the work of Russian painter so far.
A journey through the life and work of Kandinsky
The exhibition unfolds chronologically through eight rooms. The tour raised in four sections: Munich, 1896-1914, Russia, from 1914 to 1921, Bauhaus, 1921-1933, Paris, 1933-1944. Walk the key periods of Kandinsky's life, from early years in Germany, through his years in Russia and ending with his stay in France, through fundamental works as Alte Stadt II (1902), Lied (1906), Improvisation III (1909), Im Grau (1
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Vasily Kandinsky: His Life, Philosophy, and Art
A Motley Life (Das Bunte Leben), 1907
The Blue Mountain (Der blaue Berg), 1908-09
Improvisation 3, 1909
Photo: Adam Rzepka, courtesy Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, diffusion RMN
Sketch for Composition II (Skizze für Komposition II), 1909-10
Impression III (Concert) (Impression III [Konzert]), January 1911
Photo: Courtesy Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Impression V (Park), March 1911
Photo: Bertrand Prévost, courtesy Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, diffusion RMN
Improvisation 19, 1911
Photo: Courtesy Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Improvisation 21A, 1911
Photo: Courtesy Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Lyrically (Lyrisches), 1911
Picture with a Circle (Bild mit Kreis), 1911
Improvisation 28 (second version) (Improvisation 28 [zweite Fassung]), 1912
With the Black Arch (Mit dem Schwarzen Bogen), 1912
Photo: Philippe Migeat, courtesy Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, diffusion RMN
Painting with White Border (Moscow) (B
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