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As I showed you yesterday, Kandinsky did not start off as a painter and when he did he did not start as an abstract painter. He started by painting fauve style landscapes. But little by little the power of the colour began to replace the need to be so figurative. «The Blue Mountain» begins to demonstrate that transition, if you will, from figurative to abstraction…

Wassily’s grandmother was from the aristocracy and Mongolian and his mother was from Moscow. His childhood was spent between Moscow and Odessa and in that city, where the moved to in 1871, he studied piano and cello…

In 1901, having moved to Munich, he founded the group Phalanx. This was basically a group of artists that had joined together to bring to Munich the vanguards of art from Paris. In 1902 he exhibits for the first time in Berlin. Then in 1904 he exhibited in the Salon d’Automne (an exhibition celebrated yearly in Paris since 1903).

«The Blue Rider» was one of his most important paintings of the early part of the XXth Century. It is believed by some art historians that there is a second figure, perhaps a child, that the rider is holding tight. Or it could only be a shadow. But this intentional ambiguity, allowing the observer to actually complete the work, became something Kandinsky used in other works subsequently and which reached its peak in the abstract period of 1911-1914. As you might notice, the rider is nothing more than splotches of colour and lacks any specific details. This painting indicates the route Kandinsky would take with his art soon enough.

In 1911, together with Franz Marc and other artists, Kandinsky founded an expressionist/expressionism movement in Munich and called it Der Blau Reiter (The Blue Rider). This movement transformed German expressionism.

This is one of the fundamental parts of his career as a thinker and as a painter. For me it is one of the things that make him a reference as I consider myself an expressionist artist. The other is abstract art, which I love and which I am practicing to develop. In other words, Kandinsky is still teaching me to reach out and become a fuller, more complete artist. So his influence for me is dual, on the one side the study of colour and forms in the creation of abstract art and the other is the philosophical/spiritual aspects of art which to me are implacable and most needed.

PART THREE IS COMING IN THE NEXT EDITION OF ARTISTS SERIES

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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…

On our next programme, part 2 of Wassily Kandinsky…

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Robert Lenkiewicz was born in London in 1941, son of Jewish refugees that fled from Nazi Germany… At 16 years of age he was accepted at Saint Martin’s School of Art and later attended the Royal Academy of Art… He relocated to Plymouth after his neighbours in London complained that he allowed drug addicts, derelicts, and who knows who else to shelter in his studio… He gained recognition with his giant mural on Plymouth’s Barbican (1970’s)…

In the 1990’s he began to get more and more recognition… 42.000 of his countrymen attended a retrospective of his art in 1997 at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery… He died in 2002 of a heart attack with only £12 and a huge debt… Some media reports placed Lenkiewicz’s estate somewhere around £6.5 million. Maybe because of his library of antique books on witchcraft, the occult, metaphysics and medieval philosophy. Yet when Sotheby’s auctioned the entire estate in 2003 it raised less than £1 million.

SOME OF THE WORK OF ROBERT LENKIEWICZ

He never cared about courting the London art crowd or acceptance from anyone who would not accept him on his own terms. A true artist.

(Sorry but I could not find the dates of any of the work, except for the mural and even that was just in the 1970’s)

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