Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3822859826 ISBN 13: 9783822859827

Casa editrice: Taschen America Llc, 2000

Riassunto

The founder of abstract art

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting.

Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blauer Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the "First Abstract Watercolour" of 1910.

In his theoretical writings Kandinsky 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. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colours". Kandinsky was the first to realise this and thus to influence a whole range of artists. About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art Series features:

• a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
• a concise biography
• approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions

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Book by Dchting Hajo

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Taschen America Llc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 3822859826
• ISBN 13: 9783822859827
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 95
• Redattore: Duchting Hajo