Wassily kandinsky (В а с и л и й К а н д и н с seem и й, Gregorian calendar on December 4, 1866 - December 13, 1944), was born in Russia of the painter and art theorist. Kandinsky with Peter · mondrian and marxist-leninist together, is considered to be the pioneer of abstract art, but there is no doubt that kandinsky is one of the most famous. He also Shared with others founded a not too long but influential arts groups - "blue knight". Kandinsky's paintings price has nearly $fifteen million. Solomon guggenheim museum is one of the biggest collectors kandinsky works. Wassily kandinsky is one of the great figures of modern art, is also the founder of the modern abstract art in theory and practice. He wrote in 1911 of "the spirit of art", 1912 "about form", "point and line to plane" in 1923, 1938, "on the concrete art", etc, are all classic works of abstract art, is the revelation of modern abstract art.
Chinese name Wassily kandinsky foreign names В а с и л и й К а н д и н с seem и й countries Russia's birthplace Russia died on December 16, 1866 date of date of birth on December 13, 1944 career painters and art theorist, graduated from colleges and universities Moscow state university One of the great figures of the main achievements of modern art Representative works of the artists self-improvement "and other male [3] sex
Kandinsky, 1914 years ago
Kandinsky was born in 1866 in Moscow, a family of intellectuals, in a good family environment education is perfect; High school, not only excellent results, and is best amateur cellist and painter. Studied law at Moscow state university and the economy, to maintain interest in painting. 1889 to vologda for fitting, and folklore research, extensive contacts to the Russian folk painting and decoration art, their exaggerated, nonobjective expression and strong colors, left a deep impression. Graduated from university in 1893 with a doctorate, and a place at university. At the age of 30, in order to painting, he cast away, a law professor at the position. Come to art, here, he just is diffuse in the new art of the city
Wassily kandinsky
Caught by the dynamic atmosphere. Graduated from art academy of fine arts in 1900, becoming a professional painter. In 1903, he began his trip to Europe and north Africa, and field trips to the countries, the development situation of modern art movement lasted four years, so as to deepen the overall understanding of the European culture. Kandinsky settled in art in 1908, and began his professional career.
Archer image
In 1909, kandinsky join German expressionist club "art" new artists association, and served as the first President. The following year he finished his first important theory about abstract art works "the spirit of art", and created the first abstract works "improvisation". During this period, kandinsky painting on the objective object or no actual theme paintings are budding.
In 1911, kandinsky exit together with the mark "art" new artists association, and shall be separately set up "the green knight, and the green knight yearbook and publishing their own journals.
Published in 1912, "the spirit of the art", kandinsky the when he was studying in Russia, some ideas of mind hovering, to organise a serious student, and always put a lot of time on the relationship between the art and music. He in monet's paintings, for the first time to detect objects of dematerialization, and attracts a steady him. Through the exhibition in art, as well as the continuous travel, he learned more new impressionism and symbolism, fauvism, and cubist, revolutionary new discovery. Progress in the physical sciences, crushing him about the world can be palpable objects maintained by faith. At the same time, he also strengthened the confidence, believe that art must be concerned with mental health problems, rather than material things. Although kandinsky and law have a strong interest in science, but he is attracted by tong, spirit rapping and metaphysical theology. In his mind realm, there is always a mysterious kernel, he sometimes put it down to something in Russia. Therefore, this kind of mysticism, this feeling of inner creative force, is a kind of spirit products rather than external image or product manual skill. It can make people get a completely no theme of art, unless only using colour, line and the relationship between them to form this topic. He wrote: "the color and form of harmony, in a strict sense must hit the principle of the human soul as the only foundation."
Blue mountain
Kandinsky's early paintings, after impressionism and the new art movement stages such as adornment, but are characterized by feeling of color, many is the characteristics of narrative sex of fairy tales. The fairy tale, is interested in his early years of Russian folk tales and myths of nostalgia. After the impressionism is the design and color of the new impressionism, and then again in the more free-spirited beast form dabble in. The blue mountains, no. 84, is a romantic divisionism works. He put the color dot organization in several large, flat coated yamagata and the outline of the tree. Clearly the outline of the knight, a positive form a pattern of movement. Technique characteristics, can be traced back to the color space of gauguin and seurat stippling socialism; Its decoration program, prompt the new art movement. From the painting "composition, no. 2" is just a small step away. In the composition of a picture, no. 2, the rider and other characters, has become a point or line design. Screen space, lined with fluttering, rapid movement of color piece, story could drown in the abstract design. At this point, has been absorbing brutalist kandinsky, the implication of the color group started to use from music title method to express intentions, like "composition", "improvisation", "sentiment" and so on. In about 1910, he painted a picture of rudeness, ferment, colour and line shape interlock of watercolor. Starting from the picture, all the description and the elements of associative seems to be missing, probably this is the first example in the form of abstract expressionism. Is this painting kandinsky painting first fully abstract paintings, it seems this problem will never have the answer. But there is no doubt that he is to this type of painting with motive power. He used a similar nature to music, found a problem of abstract expressionism, the topic is: the artist's intentions, to pass the line and color, space, and motion, do not refer to anything visible nature, to indicate that a mental reaction or decision.
Kandinsky after the first set foot in the abstract, and then continue to adhere to this direction, but in 1912 work "with black bow, no. 154", a specific theme and visual associations are gone. Shown in the picture of the electromotive force and tension of violent conflict, conflict and tension is colour and shape, like a Star Wars lines of conflict and tension. Starting from this point, continue to create a series of artist
Cossack soldier (oil painting)
The abstract expressionist painting masterpiece. After 1913, due to the depressive feeling of the first world war, and he occasionally back to, to introduce objective object such as the impromptu 31, 161 (guns), only the objects become more and more becomes scarce. In fact, this kind of artillery, the abstract elements to show pictures of damage of feeling, have no real necessary. Here to introduce his big season series in 1914 "autumn" and "the winter". The autumn colors more dense properly. "The winter" in the small broken piece of accelerated motion and rotation, the line of crisscross, splash more lively and vivid. Artists through the technique of expression, even abstraction technique strength, suggests some of the characteristics of the season.
In 1914, the war forced kandinsky returned to Russia, not long after, another of his long and productive career began. Gu Qing cavaliers back other works of some of the members in 1914, you can see that is not a common style on the principle of the relevant personnel together, but a group of young artists, from the enthusiasm for the new exploration, come from united against targets, to form a loose and groups. In addition to the friendship between individuals, they ZhuiGenXunYuan and mature mind, and kandinsky's personality, gave the group cohesion and direction. Edited by kangding and mark the yearbook "the green knight", published in 1912, became the school view of BBS. Yearbook in Paris, Picasso and Matisse are discussed in detail, recorded the goal of the new German art groups and conflict. In the creation of a new culture, and in the new attitude of treating painting, its importance lies in the influences of the art of all kinds of original and naive.
Middle-aged activity edit
Kandinsky in Russia (1914-1921),
The Russian exploration in abstraction and composition is kandinsky spread to the west. Due to the outbreak of the war, kandinsky was forced to leave Germany, return to Russia in 1914. After the Russian revolution, in 1918 he was appointed to the Moscow academy of fine arts professor, helped to organise the Russian museum in 1919. In 1920, he was appointed to Moscow, a professor at the university a launched by the government of his personal works exhibition held in Moscow. In the second year, the original good climate changed in exploration of modern art, kandinsky tried to through the modelling of artists, writers and musicians in collaboration, to the study of modern design art language system, in order to establish a set of suitable for all kinds of art creation together and complete theoretical principles. But his theoretical exploration from constructivism "art production" in the camp. In early 1921, constructivist view "art production" of artists have finally gained the upper hand, they formed a new creation society - "producers alliance", and signed the declaration on November 24, 1921, officially refused to "abstract". In this case, kandinsky had to return to Western Europe, in foreign country, far from Russia to continue his study of abstract art and creation. At the end of 1921, kandinsky returned to Germany, soon was appointed new the Bauhaus of weimar, a professor, later became vice President. "German" Bauhaus "(Bauhaus), known as" the cradle of modern design ">
Until 1920, kandinsky continued freedom to abstract painting technique, which is about 1910, when he first. He back in Moscow in the past years, he began to paint in some make rules in shapes, lines, or geometry curve. In 1921, and then make geometric patterns, and entered into another major stage of his life. Kandinsky received a marxist-leninist veitch, rodchenko geometric abstraction and the influence of constructivism, this is no doubt about it. Although the free form into rules, rigid line hook edge color shape, kandinsky's paintings are still kept vigorous art, keep the activity of abstract form of continued conflict. The white line, no. 232, is a transitional work, main color piece, is a kind of loose and atmosphere technique to deal with. But these color piece by a strong element of straight line patterns and the rules of the curved piece stresses, the work has a controlled by the geometric sense of light. Circle is a central motif, since the mid - 1920 - s he was willing to this. Probably this is can be used to show the interaction space and galaxies, the theme of the durable and has the charm.
In later life editor
After 1921 kandinsky
Kandinsky returned to Germany in 1921, joined the Bauhaus school in 1922. A few years ago, under the influence of Russian supremacist and constructivism, his painting gradually from the abstract to the form of an abstract. This kind of change, from 1919, 1920, 1923 in the three paintings. "The gray, no. 222" was almost entirely free, non geometry. The white line, 232 shows some regular shapes, straight line and some edge chiseled curved shape. In "emphasizes the Angle, 247" in the picture, it was replaced by has the rules of hard outline.
This is not to say that kandinsky after 1921 abandoned his early style of expressionism, his monotheistic thought still exist. Even in the most rigid geometric form period, his painting is also full of electromotive force in the structure, triangles, circles and lines and unstable slashes, revealing and shine to each other. Continues to use variegated color piece, and geometrical line form contrast. The occasional mood become calm down: in the several round, no. 323, transparent round color piece, in black space, quiet to rub shoulders with each other.
During this period, kandinsky stressed his enthusiasm for abstract expressiveness of pour into. He still thinks, his painting is romantic. He wrote, "the purpose of art and the content is romantic, if we to say things in isolation, to understand this concept, we made a mistake... I work, has been a large number of round, to appear romantic here is a piece of ice, and ice in the burning flame."
Kandinsky was the Bauhaus school of the most influential member, not just because he is a great artist, the pioneer of modern abstract, bring Russia abstract art revolution first-hand knowledge of talented teachers, but also because he can have a system, clearly and accurately express his vision and theoretical concepts. In 1926, he has made his composition course book point and line to plane. Kandinsky's book, want to give art elements and their relationship, the next is the definition of absolute. This kind of relationship, refers to one element to another element, as well as on the relationship of the whole. His free from vulgarity, romantic art foundation, is an obvious here.
Kandinsky's relationship with Bauhaus school ended in 1933. He wrote many paintings, paintings full of conflict between meaning and form of the theme, but never left abstract methods. In the Bauhaus school will dissolve those years, kandinsky's paintings, again appeared a colorful side of the lyric, replaced the processing technique of building type. "Between light, no. 559," in the shape of the, is still a geometric, they are layered, the horizontal and vertical style, even more than the past. Color is soft, but is weakened the color; Accurate characterization of shape, surrounded by light and color of diffuse light wheel. Therefore, the whole effect of peaceful and romantic interest. Some shapes, reminiscent of Egypt or American indians hieroglyphs, conveyed an exotic emotional appeal. At that time, kandinsky already know the surrealism in the 1920 s; In this painting, and in 1933 he moved to France after the creation of the paintings, people feel is similar to the abstract nature of surrealism. The shape of a color, show their own anger, and like the microorganisms or space art, do game type of engagement.
At the end of 1933, kandinsky settled in Paris, until death. For him, this last period, whether on the amount of work, or in the development of ideas and forms, are rich and colorful. In short, he continued to pursue more freedom, more the modelling of biological form and color, occasionally create the simple sense of biological form, but this kind of simple sense, the simple sense of abstract expressionism works, than he ever more brilliant and diverse. Shape is still a clean-cut, however, these shapes seem to emerge from the microscopic world of fantasy. He in the composition of 9, 626, spent two of the same triangle, one is down, the ends of the picture cut open, established a mathematical model of color. Between two triangle parallelogram, and is divided into four smaller size same parallelogram. In the strict limit but colorful background, he spread some various small like crazy dance form: circle, square shape, narrow board a long rectangular and amoeba design. Above the geometrical design of the large, small and the shape of the free, in those years, this has always been that interested him. Sometimes the background is a few of the large vertical rectangle, sometimes is black and white checkerboard, however, this freedom and constraint of contrast, from the moment his life intuition performance and is interested in the relationship between the abstract form.
Abstract fantasy of the individual, is the main starting point of his later years. Sometimes he put the shape of a small, free, spreading in a unified color background; But some time again, returned to the elements of a kind of as little as possible arrangements, as if in the purification of his technique. Kandinsky shows that the last batch of painting of modern art in one of the most illustrious and the most influential talents is ripe.
Cu in Seine France in 1944
Theory book editor
In 1909,
"The yellow voice"
In 1912,
"The spirit of the art"
"On form problem"
"On the stage composition"
In 1913,
"As a pure art of painting"
In 1923,
The basic elements of the form"
"The color course and research"
"On the stage of abstract comprehensive"
In 1926,
"Point, line, face"
The dance curve: on Mr Liao and dance"
"The value of the painting theory course"
In 1928,
The painting "analysis of basic elements
"The art of teaching"
In 1938,
"On the concrete art"
Among them, the masterpiece, the revelation of modern art, the artist self-improvement includes the spirit of art "of" point, line and plane.
