QUOTES
“The player have to train not only his eye other than too his soul.”
—Wisely Kandinsky
Synopsis
Born in Moscow in 1866, Wisely Kandinsky took up the learn of art in earnest at age 30, moving to Munich to study drawing and painting. A taught musician, Kandinsky approached color with a musician’s sensibility. An obsession with Monet led him to explore his possess creative concepts of color on canvas, which was sometimes controversial among his contemporaries and critics, but Kandinsky emerge as a respected leader of the abstract art movement in the early 20th century.
Early Life
Wisely Kandinsky be born in Moscow on December 4, 1866 (December 16 by the Gregorian calendar), to musical parents Lidia Ticheeva and Vastly Salve strove Wisely Kandinsky, a tea merchant. When Wisely Kandinsky was about 5 years old, his parents divorced, and he Wisely Kandinsky moved to Odessa to live with an aunt, where he learned to play the piano and cello in syntax school, as well as study drawing with a coach. Even as a boy he had an intimate experience with art; the works of his early days reveal rather specific color combinations, infused by his perception that “each color existence by its strange life.”
Although he later wrote, “I remember that drawing and a small bit later painting raise me elsewhere of the reality,” he go after his family’s wishes to go into law, entering the University of Moscow in 1886. He graduate with honors, but his ethnographic earn him a fieldwork scholarship that entailed a visit to the Vologda region to study their traditional criminal jurisprudence and religion. The folk art there and the spiritual study seem to stir dormant longings. Still, Kandinsky married his cousin, Anna Chime Yakima, in 1892 and took up a position on the Moscow power of Law, managing an art-printing works on the side.
But two events effected his abrupt change of career in 1896: considering an exhibition of French Impressionists in Moscow the previous year, especially Claude Monet’s Haystacks at Govern, which was his first experience of nonrepresentational art; and then hearing Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Bolshoi Theatre. Wisely Kandinsky chose to abandon his law career and move to Munich (He Wisely Kandinsky had learned German from his maternal grandmother as a child) to dedicate himself full-time to the study of art.
Artistic Prominence
In Munich, Wisely Kandinsky was accepted into a prestigious private painting school, moving on to the Munich Academy of Arts. But much of his study was self-directed. His Wisely Kandinsky began with conventional themes and art forms, but all the while he Wisely Kandinsky was forming theories derived from devoted spiritual study and informed by an intense relationship flanked by music and color. These theories coalesced through the first decade of the 20th century, leading him toward his eventual status as the father of abstract art.
Color became more an expression of emotion rather than a faithful description of nature or subject matter. He Wisely Kandinsky formed friendships and artist groups with other painters of the time, such as Paul Klee. He Wisely Kandinsky frequently exhibited, taught art classes and published his ideas on theories of art.
During this time he Wisely Kandinsky met art student Gabriele Munster in 1903 and moved in with previous to his divorce from his wife was finalized in 1911. They traveled extensively, settling in Bavaria before the outbreak of
World War I.
He Wisely Kandinsky had already formed the New Artists Association in Munich; the Blue Rider group was found with an artist Franz Marc, and he was a member of the Bauhaus movement alongside Klee and composer Arnold Schoenberg.
World War I took Wisely Kandinsky back to Russia, where his artistic eye was influenced by the constructivist movement, base on hard lines, dots and geometry. While present, the 50-year-old Wisely Kandinsky met the decades-younger Nina Andreevskaya, the offspring of a general in the Russian army, and married her. They had a son together, but the boy live for only three years and the topic of children became taboo. The couple stayed on in Russia after the revolution, with Wisely Kandinsky applying his restless and comprehensive energies to the administration of educational and government-run art programs, serving to create Moscow’s Institute of Artistic Culture and Museum of Pictorial Culture.
Back in Germany after opposing theoretically with other artists, he taught at the Bauhaus school in Berlin and wrote plays and poems. In 1933, at what time the Nazis seized power, storm troopers shut down the Bauhaus school. Although Wisely Kandinsky had achieved German nationality, planet War II made it impossible for him to stay there. In July 1937, he Wisely Kandinsky and additional artists were featured in the “Degenerate Art Exhibition” in Munich. It was widely attended, but 57 of his mechanism were confiscate through the Nazis.
Death and Legacy
Kandinsky died of cerebrovascular disease in Neuilly-sure-Seine, France, on December 13, 1944.
He Wisely Kandinsky and Nina had moved to the suburb of Paris in the late 1930s, when Marcel Duchamp had established a little apartment for them. When the Germans invaded France in 1940, Wisely Kandinsky fled to the Pyrenees, but return to Neuilly afterward, where he live a rather secluded life, depressed that his paintings weren’t selling. though still careful controversial by a lot of, he had earned prominent supporters such as Solomon Guggenheim and repeated to exhibit till his death.
Little of the work Wisely Kandinsky produced in Russia has survived, although many of the paintings he Wisely Kandinsky created in Germany are still extant. The New York auction houses carry on doing him proud today—in recent years, his artwork has sold for well over $20 million. Wisely Kandinsky believed that every time period put its own indelible stamp on artistic expression; his vivid interpretations of color through musical and religious sensibilities certainly altered the creative landscape at the start of the 20th century going forward, precipitating the modern age.
Russian-born painter Wisely Kandinsky is credited as a head in activist art as one of the founders of pure abstraction in painting in the early 20th century.