Vassily Kandinsky fut un artiste visionnaire quibouscula les conventions artistiques traditionnelles par son approche pionnière de l'abstraction. Son œuvre témoigne d'un profond intérêt pour les qualités spirituelles et émotionnelles de la couleur et de la forme, qu'il chercha à exprimer au-delà de la représentation figurative. À travers ses écrits théoriques et sa peinture, il explora le potentiel de l'art à évoquer de puissantes réactions intérieures chez le spectateur. Son dévouement tout au long de sa vie à repousser les limites de l'expression visuelle en fait une figure centrale de l'art moderne.
After a long and intensive preparation, Wassily Kandinsky frees a work of art with its own expression and timbre. Wassily Kandinsky started a new art movement that was adopted by other painters, ensuring the survival of abstract art.
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Vassili Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Exploring spirituality in modern art, this groundbreaking work by Wassily Kandinsky revolutionizes abstract painting. It offers deep insights into Kandinsky's thoughts and emotions, as well as those of his contemporaries, highlighting the transformative power of art in expressing the inner self.
The Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) art movement was founded in 1911 by the young painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and was active in Europe until 1914. Originally published in Munich in 1912 and edited by Kandinsky and Marc-- the movements's almanac presented their synthesis of international culture to the European avant garde at large. In both the selection of essays and its innovative interplay of word and image, The Blaue Reiter Almanac remains one of our most critically important works of literature on the art theory and culture of the twentieth century. This edition, long unavailable in English and indispensable to any student of Modernism, simulates the original German format, and includes documents, and musical notations, as well as seminal essays by Kandinsky, Schoenberg, Marc and others. Nearly 150 illustrations, from ancient and contemporary sources, capture the wide-ranging interests and passions that inspired Kandinsky's and Marc's programmatic attempt to make Modernism accessible across national and chronological boundaries. Also included is Klaus Lankheit's extensive critical introduction, which places the Blaue Reiter in context for contemporary readers."The almanac remains unique among European writings on art; no other country produced a comparable work capturing the excitement and tension of the years before World War I." (Will Grohmann)
A dazzling yet little-known artist's book that distills the painter's seminal interests in abstraction and the unity of the arts
