Duchting Hajo - Kandinsky - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Over the course of his artistic career Wassily Kandinsky (1866 1944) transformed not only his own style but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting he went on to pioneer a spiritual emotive rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work. As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist Kandinsky's interests in music theater poetry philosophy ethnology myth and the occult were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and left a legacy not only of dazzling visual work but also of highly influential treatises such as Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Key tenets included the connections between painting music and mystical experience and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an emotional expression condensed in particular by color. This book presents key Kandinsky works to introduce his repertoire of vivid colors forms and feelings. Tracing the artist's radical stylistic development it shows how one painter's progression paved the way for generations of abstract expression to come.
Title: Kandinsky
Author(s): Duchting Hajo
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836507462
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 9/23/2015
Series: Basic Art
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs