Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art, possibly after Hilma af Klint. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art School. 

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky photographed in front of his painting "Courbe Dominante" in 1936 by Boris Lipnitzki. One of his great-grandmothers was Princess Gantimurova. The family comes from the eastern Siberian Dauriya and were already tribal chiefs of the siberian-transbaikalian Evenks and the Mongolian Daurian tribes in the 16th century. It is named after Gantimur (1610-1685), son of a chief of the Evenks and Daurians, whose name is derived from the Mongolian gan ("steel") and tömör ("iron").

Exposição interativa sobre Kandisky no Iguatemi Campinas

Exposição interativa sobre Kandisky no Iguatemi Campinas

A exposição Kandinsky – O Passeio dos Sentidos acontece de 27 de outubro a 27 de novembro no espaço de eventos no terceiro piso do Iguatemi Campinas (com acesso pela escada rolante ao lado do restaurante Abbraccio). A mostra apresenta ao público a possibilidade de interagir com as obras de Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 -1944), o grande artista plástico russo, professor da Bauhaus e…

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Wassily Wassilevich Kandinsky (1866-1944) - Kochel - Gabriele Münter

Oil on canvasboard. Painted in 1902.

13 x 9.4 inches, 33 x 23.8 cm. Estimate: US$300,000-400,000.

Sold Christie’s, New York, 7 May 2009 for US$362,500 incl B.P.

<strong>Wassily Kandinsky <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocor/">by rocor</a></strong>

Kleine Welten (Small Worlds) portfolio, 1922. Lithograph (1866-1944) SFMOMA

Vasily Kandinsky. Green Accent. 1935.

“In the Paris of the early eighteen-nineties, at the height of the Decadence, the man of the moment was the novelist, art critic, and would-be guru Joséphin Péladan, who named himself Le Sâr, after the ancient Akkadian word for “king.” He went about in a flowing white cloak, an azure jacket, a lace ruff, and an Astrakhan hat, which, in conjunction with his bushy head of hair and double-pointed beard, gave him the aspect of a Middle Eastern potentate. He was in the midst of writing a twenty-one-volume cycle of novels, titled “La Décadence Latine,” which follows the fantastical adventures of various enchanters, adepts, femmes fatales, androgynes, and other enemies of the ordinary. His bibliography also includes literary tracts, explications of Wagnerian mythology, and a self-help tome called “How One Becomes a Magus.” He let it be known that he had completed the syllabus. He informed Félix Faure, the President of the Republic, that he had the gift of “seeing and hearing at the greatest distances, useful in controlling enemy councils and suppressing espionage.” He began one lecture by saying, “People of Nîmes, I have only to pronounce a certain formula for the earth to open and swallow you all.” In 1890, he established the Order of the Catholic Rose + Croix of the Temple and the Grail, one of a number of end-of-century sects that purported to revive lost arts of magic. The peak of his fame arrived in 1892, when he launched an annual art exhibition called the Salon de la Rose + Croix, which embraced the Symbolist movement, with an emphasis on its more eldritch guises. Thousands of visitors passed through, uncertain whether they were witnessing a colossal breakthrough or a monumental joke.” ..... “... mystics like Péladan prepared the ground for the modernist revolution of the early twentieth century. John Bramble, in his 2015 book, “Modernism and the Occult,” writes that the Salon de la Rose + Croix was the “first attempt at a (semi-)internationalist ‘religion of modern art’ ”—an aesthetic order with Péladan as high priest. In the years that followed, radical artistic thinking and obscure spiritual strivings intersected in everything from Kandinsky’s abstractions to Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and the atonal music of Schoenberg. In Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” the “rough beast” that slouches toward Bethlehem, half man and half lion, is no metaphor. Classic accounts of modernism tended to repress such influences, often out of intellectual discomfort. In recent decades, though, fin-de-siècle mysticism has returned to scholarly vogue. In 1917, Max Weber said that the rationalization of Western society had brought about the “disenchantment of the world.” Péladan, and those who took up his mantle, wished to enchant it once again.” .... “In any other society, such material would have been unpublishable, but Péladan sparked little outrage in an environment that had assimilated Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Huysmans. Among impressionable youth, he had an appeal somewhat comparable to that of H. P. Lovecraft. Writers as various as Paul Valéry, André Gide, André Breton, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline read him with fascination, as did Le Corbusier. Verlaine generously summarized him as a “man of considerable talent, eloquent, often profound . . . bizarre but of great distinction.” Max Nordau, in his 1892 book, “Degeneration,” a mocking survey of fin-de-siècle culture, shows a soft spot for Péladan, declaring that “the conscious factor in him knows that [mysticism] is all nonsense, but it finds artistic pleasure in it, and permits the unconscious life to do as it pleases.” This is probably as strong a defense of Péladan’s writing as can be mounted.” .... “In the wake of two catastrophic world wars, mysticism lost its lustre. The ecstatic liturgies of the fin de siècle rang false, and a rite of objectivity took hold. The supernatural was all but expunged from modernism’s origin story: the great Irish-literature scholar Richard Ellmann insisted that Yeats employed arcane symbols “for their artistic, not their occult, utility.” In the narrative that so many of us learned in school, the upheavals of the modernist epoch were, above all, formal developments, autonomous events within each discipline. Clement Greenberg spoke of painting’s “progressive surrender to the resistance of its medium”; Theodor W. Adorno, of the “inherent tendency of the musical material.” Such sober formulas fail to capture the roiling transcendental longings of a Kandinsky or a Schoenberg. Hence the disreputable allure of Péladan, who dared to speak aloud what usually remains implicit in the aesthetic sphere: belief in the artist’s alchemical power, in the godlike nature of creation, in the oracular quality of genius. ”

🎂🎉❤️ Today is Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky's 155th Birthday! Hermitage honors the most significant Russian Artist of Expressionism. Kandinsky is credited with painting the first purely abstract work of art.

“My dear young friends, I want to invite you to dare to love. Do not desire anything less for your life than a love that is strong and beautiful and that is capable of making the whole of your existence a joyful undertaking of giving yourselves as a gift to God and your brothers and sisters, in imitation of the One who vanquished hatred and death forever through love. Love is the only force capable of changing the heart of the human person and of all humanity, by making fruitful the relations between men and women, between rich and poor, between cultures and civilizations. This is shown to us in the lives of the saints. They are true friends of God who channel and reflect this very first love. Try to know them better, entrust yourselves to their intercession, and strive to live as they did.” ~ Pope Benedict XVI [The Ludwigskirche in Munich, 1908 - Wassily Kandinsky]

• Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germany. His father, a police officer, came from a traditional family of farmers from Lower Bavaria. He spent his adolescent years in Traunstein, a small town on the Austrian border.It was in this context, which Pope Benedict XVI himself has described as "Mozartian", that he received his Christian, human and cultural formation. More: http://www.vatican.va/.../hf_ben-xvi_bio_20050419_short... 

• Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship at the University of Dorpat —Kandinsky began painting studies at the age of 30. More: https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/wassily-kandinsky/m0856z?hl=en 

Gin what are the top 5 books that you think other people should read? Oh and also 5 songs you think (i) might not know but I should listen to ! (you don't need to do this iezjfo)

This is a tricky question, if I ever saw one! Books are something extremely personal, and I really don’t have a habit of recommending any if I don’t know the person I’m talking to. There is a top 5 books that moved something from the inside and that, aftre years, I still remember quite fondly: - Perspective as Symbolic Form, by Erwin Panofsky - Point and Line to Plane, by Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky - The Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino - The Brothers Karamazov, by Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij - The Bacchae, by Euripides + a little bonus: any poem written by Giuseppe Ungaretti As for the songs, I have basic taste sdfghjk sorry

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (/ˌvæsɪli kænˈdɪnski/; Russian: Василий Васильевич Кандинский, tr. Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, IPA: [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐnʲˈdʲinskʲɪj]; 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art.[1] Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood…

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literally the only reason i know who abstract art pioneer wassily wassilyevich kandinsky is is because of 90s one-hit wonder deep blue something’s 1995 album “home” which had a song called “the kandinsky prince” as the eighth track and i spend a large amount of 2000-2002 listening to that album on deep repeat in my disc man

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Today is Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky's 152nd Birthday ....He is credited with painting the first purely abstract work of art.