Wassily Kandinsky an Abstract Expressionist

By: Arlette Apelian-KiledjianMay 26, 2010

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow (1866-1944)

• He learned cello and piano from young age.

• He studied law and economics and got his PHD.

• He wrote concerning the spiritual in art.

• He taught art at Bauhaus in Weimar Germany.

• He was part of a group named The Blue Rider.

• He married twice and Gabriele Munter, a Painter, was his big love.

• Kandinsky lived his life fully and he was a handsome man.

“Everything starts from a dot”. Kandinsky

Couple Riding

Volga Song

Autumn Landscape with Boats

“A man who can move mountains” Franz Marc, painter

Arabs I (Cemetery)

Improvisation 6 (African)

“Central to his career as a theorist, Kandinsky began to investigate ‘form’

in art form created from inner necessity”. Dr. Janet Mckenzie

Painting with Three Spots

“Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but

real, which acts on every human body”. Kandinsky

Improvisation 12 (Rider)

Wall Panel (for Edwin Ricampell’s villa)

“The relationship between art and music is central to an

examination of Kandinsky's work”. Dr. Janet Mckenzie

Composition VIII

On White II

“The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less

powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo”.

Kandinsky

Black and Violet

“The major exhibition on ‘ The Path to Abstraction’ was held in Britain, it met with

mix of praise and hostility, ridicule of theosophy and simplified reliance on the theory of synthanaesia, the ability to see

music”. Dr. Janet Mckenzie

Yellow-Red-Blue

“Art is a power that should be aimed at developing the soul. If art does

not do this job, the abyss that separates us from God is left

Without a bridge”. Paulo Coelho, writer

Dominant Curve

“I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the

‘subject’ out of my paintings, but every ‘object’ as well”. Kandinsky

Two Green Points

Upward

“A painting by Kandinsky gives no image of life-it is life itself”. Diego

Rivera, painter

Composition IX

“If one Painter deserves the name ‘ creator’ it is he”. Diego Rivera, painter

Reciprocal Accords

Tempered Elan

Scharfruhiges Rosa

Merry Structure

“He expresses drama, destruction, complex relationships, candid

beauty, courage and redemption through exquisite orchestrations of colour and line, like no other artist

before or since”. Dr. Janet Mckenzie

Quiet Harmony

“The more frightening the world becomes…the more art becomes

abstract”. Kandinsky

Several Circles

“Some day, Kandinsky will be the best known and best loved of men”.

Diego Rivera, painter

In The Bright Oval

References and sources

• Studio International, Dr. Janet Mckenzie (deputy editor) sited at 5/ 22/2010

• Wasilly Kandinsky- painting 1896-1944. sited at 5/22/2010

• Paulo Coelho’s Blog sited at 5/23/2010• Kandinsky by Ulrike Becks-Malorny• The Painter’s keys quotes by

kandinsky 5/24/2010• Music Pixar’s up soundtrac