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Wassily
Kandinsky
1866-1944
One of
the Greatest Painters Of All Time
"The Father Of
Abstract Art"
Russian Abstract
Expressionist, Bauhaus, Der Blaue Reiter
Painter
Artistic Influences
- Russian Folk Art, Art
Nouveau, African
Tribal Art, Franz Marc, Paul Klee and Alexei
von Jawlensky
The Nazis defamed
his work as “Entartete
Kunst”, and in 1937 removed all of his paintings
from public museums. Fearing for his
life the artist fled to Paris, where he remained until his death in
1944.
Cause of Death -
Cerebrovascular disease
Wassily
Kandinsky Art Quotations
The all-important spark of inner spiritual life is at
present only a spark. - Wassily Kandinsky Quote
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
Quote
Imagination
is what allows your mind discover.- Wassily Kandinsky Quote
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. -
Wassily Kandinsky Quote
The spirit like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent
exercise. - Wassily Kandinsky Quote
There is no must in
art because art is free. - Wassily Kandinsky Quote
The more frightening the world becomes ... the more art becomes
abstract. - Wassily Kandinsky Quote
All
methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are
sins if they are not justified by internal necessity. - Wassily
Kandinsky Quote
The
artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately
succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. - Wassily
Kandinsky Quote
Every work of art is the child of its time; often it is the mother of
our emotions. - Wassily Kandinsky Quote
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