Kandinsky

Painter, theoretician and teacher of art

Wassily Kandinsky was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artists of the twentieth century. He brought an equal passion and commitment to his work as a painter, a theoretician and a teacher of art. After conventional beginnings in Munich, he devoted his intellectual and artistic energies to pioneering new dimensions of expression in art. He ultimately arrived at an abstract style of painting based on the inner properties of colour and form.

Although Kandinsky may not be the first truly abstract artist, he was nevertheless the first to experiment with non-representational forms in a logical manner and to develop out of them a homogeneous style. His writings on art, including his ground-breaking work On the Spiritual in Art, have lost none of their significance, and the Compositions which caused such a furore at the first Blaue Reiter exhibition in 1911 are full of the same dazzling power and modernity today.

About the author:
Dr. Ulrike Becks-Malorny studied free painting in Geneva and art history in Bochum, Germany. Since gaining her doctorate in 1990, she has worked as an exhibition organizer and freelance author. She lives in Bonn, Germany.

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Kandinsky

Becks-Malorny, Dr. Ulrike
Flexicover, 19.6 x 24.5 cm (7.7 x 9.6 in.), 200 pages
$ 19.99

ISBN: 978-3-8228-2349-1
Edition: English
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This is a terrific book for anyone who wants to know why abstract painting is so wonderful. This is more than a biography of Kandinsky and his work; it is about the search for a language that connects us to the non-material world, a pursuit that artists and non-artists alike need constant reminder.
Andrew Wiener, United States

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