kandinsky the path to abstraction.pptx by aa
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Wassily Kandinsky an Abstract Expressionist
By: Arlette Apelian-KiledjianMay 26, 2010
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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.
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“Everything starts from a dot”. Kandinsky
Couple Riding
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Volga Song
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Autumn Landscape with Boats
“A man who can move mountains” Franz Marc, painter
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Arabs I (Cemetery)
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Improvisation 6 (African)
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“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
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“Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but
real, which acts on every human body”. Kandinsky
Improvisation 12 (Rider)
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Wall Panel (for Edwin Ricampell’s villa)
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“The relationship between art and music is central to an
examination of Kandinsky's work”. Dr. Janet Mckenzie
Composition VIII
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On White II
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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Upward
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“A painting by Kandinsky gives no image of life-it is life itself”. Diego
Rivera, painter
Composition IX
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“If one Painter deserves the name ‘ creator’ it is he”. Diego Rivera, painter
Reciprocal Accords
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Tempered Elan
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Scharfruhiges Rosa
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Merry Structure
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“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
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“The more frightening the world becomes…the more art becomes
abstract”. Kandinsky
Several Circles
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“Some day, Kandinsky will be the best known and best loved of men”.
Diego Rivera, painter
In The Bright Oval
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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