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Kandinsky
New dimensions of expression in art
Wassily Kandinsky was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artist 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.
In his theoretical writings he repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of colour through the interplay of various shades. His writings on art, including his ground-breaking work Concerning the Spiritual in Art, have lost none of their significance, and the Compositions which caused such a furore at the first "Blauer Reiter" exhibition in 1911 are full of the same dazzling power and modernity today.
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Kandinsky
Softcover 11.2 x 14.4 in., 32 pages, $ 14.99
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2888-5
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