Art: Wassily Kandinsky Flashcards
What was Wassily Kandinsky’s lifespan?
1866-1944
What did Kandinsky do before art?
He was a lawyer
Where was he born, and where did he spend his childhood?
Moscow, and Odessa. He returned to Moscow to study law in 1886, and graduated in 1893.
When did he decide to become an artist?
At the age of 30, he decided to study painting, and moved to Munich in 1896 to have formal art training.
What was Kandinsky’s first long-term relationship?
No, but he was in a long-term relationship with Gabriele Münter.
What did Kandinsky do that was similar to Monet?
He repeated the same motif over and over again, w/ emphasis on color and flattening the illusion of space.
When did Kandinsky start to give his paintings strange names?
1909
When was Kandinsky’s Blue Rider period?
His Der Blaue Reiter period was 1911-1914.
Who did he edit the Blue Rider Almanac with?
Franz Marc
What was Kandinsky interested in, philosophically?
The spiritual role of art
What was thought about non-Western artworks?
They were more “primitive”, and therefore more spiritual.
What did Walter Gropius ask Kandinsky to do?
Come to Germany to teach at the Bauhaus
What did the Nazi Party label Kandinsky’s art?
degenerate, just like Kirchner
