Wassily Kandinsky Libri

«È come un pezzo di ghiaccio entro cui brucia una fiamma» scriveva Kandinsky, riferendosi alla sua pittura. Questo concetto si applica anche al suo libro, Punto, linea, superficie, un testo fondamentale per la teoria dell’arte. Kandinsky, tra i grandi pittori del ’900, sentì l’esigenza di formulare teoricamente i risultati delle proprie ricerche, ampliandone il significato a tutti i piani dell’esistenza. Già nel 1910, con Über das Geistige in der Kunst, aveva lanciato un appello a un radicale rinnovamento della vita e dell’arte. Punto, linea, superficie, più tecnico e freddo, rappresenta l’espressione più matura del suo pensiero. Basato sui corsi tenuti al Bauhaus dal 1922, il libro esplora la natura e le proprietà degli elementi fondamentali della forma. Kandinsky mirava a fondare una scienza dell’arte, proponendo che i problemi dovessero essere risolti matematicamente, influenzando così diversi campi, dalla grafica all'estetica. Oggi, ciò che colpisce è l’abbozzo di una metafisica della forma, dove ogni forma diventa un essere vivente, manifestando una realtà profonda. Kandinsky ci guida a «ascoltare» la forma, instaurando un nuovo rapporto con l’opera d’arte e offrendo un’opportunità di esplorazione sensoriale. Punto, linea, superficie fu pubblicato nel 1926.

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The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blauer Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the "First Abstract Watercolour" of 1910. In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of colour through the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colours". Kandinsky was the first to realise this and thus to influence a whole range of artists. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series

Exploring spirituality in modern art, this groundbreaking work by Wassily Kandinsky revolutionizes abstract painting. It offers deep insights into Kandinsky's thoughts and emotions, as well as those of his contemporaries, highlighting the transformative power of art in expressing the inner self.

The Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) art movement was founded in 1911 by the young painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and was active in Europe until 1914. Originally published in Munich in 1912 and edited by Kandinsky and Marc-- the movements's almanac presented their synthesis of international culture to the European avant garde at large. In both the selection of essays and its innovative interplay of word and image, The Blaue Reiter Almanac remains one of our most critically important works of literature on the art theory and culture of the twentieth century. This edition, long unavailable in English and indispensable to any student of Modernism, simulates the original German format, and includes documents, and musical notations, as well as seminal essays by Kandinsky, Schoenberg, Marc and others. Nearly 150 illustrations, from ancient and contemporary sources, capture the wide-ranging interests and passions that inspired Kandinsky's and Marc's programmatic attempt to make Modernism accessible across national and chronological boundaries. Also included is Klaus Lankheit's extensive critical introduction, which places the Blaue Reiter in context for contemporary readers."The almanac remains unique among European writings on art; no other country produced a comparable work capturing the excitement and tension of the years before World War I." (Will Grohmann)

A dazzling yet little-known artist's book that distills the painter's seminal interests in abstraction and the unity of the arts

One of the art world's most poignant love stories comes to life in this fascinating book. The tumultuous love affair between Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter is a story of happiness and pain, trust and betrayal, harmony and conflict, set against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that attended the birth of Modernism. The fascinating story of their life in the Bavarian countryside, where they were a part of the Blue Rider group, and the underlying tensions that eventually drove them apart, is told in letters, diary entries and memoirs, and in superb reproductions of the artists' finest paintings and sketches. This book traces the development of the couple's personal and artistic relationship from 1902 through 1914 when Kandinsky fled Germany and returned to his native Russia, before finally abandoning Münter in 1917. It shows how their relationship, though ill-fated, marked a hugely prolific period in the careers of both painters and the development of the German Expressionist movement.