Kandinsky: Everything starts from a dot.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
On view at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Kandinsky: "Everything starts from a dot."
This show brings to Rio de Janeiro works from the artist who is considered the pioneer of abstract art. Most of the works were selected from the collection of the State Museum in St Petersburg. On display alongside works by his contemporaries and by artists who influenced him, the exhibition is a great opportunity for understanding how his art evolved from figurative to abstract.
Kandinsky and Plein Air Painting
Wassily Kandinsky
The Red Church
oil on wood
1901/03
Like the French master, Kandinsky worked in Plein Air(outdoors), sometimes panting the same scene over the changing seasons.
Wassily Kandinsky
The River in Autumn
oil on wood
1901/03
Wassily Kandinsky
Murnau- Summer Landscape 1909
oil on cardboard
His research on plein air painting went through the period of his life with the German painter Gabriele Münter in France. Both used to work outdoors direct from nature.
Wassily Kandinsky
Gabriele Münter Painting 1903
oil on canvas
(not on display in this show)
Wassily Kandinsky
Murnau- Summer Landscape 1909
oil on cardboard
His interest in form and color led him to construct his colorful way from figurative art to abstraction where the influence of Xamanism, popular art and music is evident.
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| Wassily Kandinsky Saint George 1911 oil on canvas |
His friendship with the composer Arnold Schönberg is displayed through the letters they exchanged:
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| Kandinsky and Arnold Schönberg letters |
Arnold Schönberg set aside in his music the existing rules of harmony in favor of a new atonal compositional method. Kandinsky wrote in his first letter to the composer:
"You have realized in your work that which I have so long sought from music: The self-sufficient following of its own path, the independent life of individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I seek to find in painterly form."
" I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and made them sing with all the intensity I could"...
"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul" Wassily Kandinsky, in "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"
Wassily Kandinsky - Composition 1916
oil on canvas
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| Wassily Kandinsky - On White 1920 oil on canvas |
Posted bySandra Nunes at 3:29 PM
Labels: abstract painting, fauvism, gabriele münter, impressionism, Kandinsky, plein air painting, Sandra Nunes, schonberg, synesthesia
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