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Kandinsky

Kan·din·sky

or Kan·din·ski(kăn-dĭn′skē, kən-dyĭn′-), Wassily 1866-1944.

Russian abstract painter who considered form and color capable of expression. A founder of the Blaue Reiter, a German group of abstract expressionists, he also taught at the Bauhaus School (1922-1933).

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Kandinsky

(Russian kanˈdinskij)

(Biography) Vasili (vaˈsilij). 1866–1944, Russian expressionist painter and theorist, regarded as the first to develop an entirely abstract style: a founder of der Blaue Reiter

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Kan•din•sky

(kænˈdɪn ski)

n.

Was•si•ly or Va•si•li (ˈvæs ə li, vəˈsɪl i) 1866

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Welcome Back to my A-Z Series: Letters to Dead Artists. Today, I’ve written to Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky, one of the driving forces behind German Expressionism. Kandinsky will be accompanied by Arnold Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night for String Quartet. Schoenberg and Kandinsky worked closely together and were very like-minded.

When I very first saw Kandinsky’s paintings in a German Expressionist Exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW in 1990, all I saw was COLOUR!!! Bright colours and expressive forms. They were such a break from all the paintings I’d known growing up, with the dull greens and browns of the Australian landscape populated, as it were, by swagmen and sheep.

However, Kandinsky wasn’t just a man of bright, alluring colours and interior design. Rather through his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art, he expounded an entire theory about the emotions and spirituality of colour and devised a complex code of colours and symbols, which were also closely intertwined with music.

When I saw the German Expressionist Exhibition, I was a 20 year ol

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Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider

Seeing

Blue, Blue got up, got up and fell.

Sharp, Thin whistled and shoved, but didn’t get through

From every corner came a humming.

FatBrown got stuck — it seemed for all eternity.

It seemed. It seemed.

You must open your arms wider.

Wider. Wider.

And you must cover your face with red cloth.

And maybe it hasn’t shifted yet at all: it’s just that you’ve shifted.

White leap after white leap.

And after this white leap another white leap.

And in this white leap a white leap. In every white leap a white leap.

But that’s not good at all, that you don’t see the gloom: in the gloom is where it is.

That’s where everything begins ......................................

With a .................... Crash ....................

Bassoon

Very large houses suddenly collapsed. Small houses remained standing. A fat hard egg-shaped orange cloud suddenly hung over the town. It seemed to hang on the pointed point of the steep spindly town hall tower and radiated violet.

A dry, naked tree stretched its quaking and quivering