#art, Artists Series, page 2: KANDINSKY (Part One)…

I know there are many blogs dedicated to inform or to critique art, contemporary and/or historical and I do too, so let’s get into it…

The «Artists Series» began yesterday with Robert Lenkiewicz, and continues today with an artist that I have always admired and who is one of my main references. Wassily Kandinsky, the creator of abstract art…erroneously…who was born in Russia en 1866. He did not start life as an artist but as a lawyer. He must have been a good one because he was offered a professorship at the University of Dorpat, the oldest law institution in Estonia. But he turned it down and turned to painting instead. He was thirty years old at the time.

He moved to Munich in 1896 where he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. But very soon (1914) the Great War broke out and he returned to Moscow. Shortly after, the Russian revolution took place and Kandinsky joined… more or less… Anatoli Lunacharski’s cultural administration (Commissioner of Education of Soviet Russia) and even helped to found the Museum of Culture of Painting.

However, his spiritual beliefs and his sense of realism did not fit with the materialism of the communists. After all, the communists do not allow the minds of their indoctrinated to be diluted with other ideologies. Kandinsky cleverly returned to Germany in 1920. He was a professor at the Bauhaus School (art and architecture) from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. In Germany, he created his best works…

Here are some of his early works of figurative (landscape) art, probably from 1902 to 1909…