"Der Blaue Reiter" (The Blue Rider), painted 1903 by Wassily Kandinsky
“The artist’s eye should always be turned in upon his inner life, and his ear should be always alert for the voice of inward necessity. This is the only way of giving expression to what the mystic vision commands.”
-- Kandinsky
Pioneer of abstract art and eminent aesthetic theorist, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) broke new ground in painting in the first decades of the twentieth century.
His seminal pre–World War I treatise Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art), published in Munich in December 1911, lays out his program for developing an art independent of one’s observations of the external world.
In this and other texts, as well as his art, Kandinsky strove to use abstraction to give painting the freedom from nature that he admired in music. His discovery of a new subject matter based solely on the artist’s “inner necessity” occupied him throughout his life.
Composition VII—according to Kandinsky, the most complex piece he ever painted (1913)
| Location | Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery |
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Kandinsky's creation of purely abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense thought based on his artistic experiences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity; it was a central aspect of his art.
Source: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/3182
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944) was an abstract expressionist from Russia. He studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
| The sun melts all of Moscow down to a single spot that, like a mad tuba, starts all of the heart and all of the soul vibrating. But no, this uniformity of red is not the most beautiful hour. It is only the final chord of a symphony that takes every colour to the zenith of life that, like the fortissimo of a great orchestra, is both compelled and allowed by Moscow to ring out. | |||
| — Wassily Kandinsky |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0vHzCdSSGg
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