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Apr 16 2011
Composition VI by Wasily Kandinsky
Academician / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Composition VI” by Wasily Kandinsky of 1913. Kandinsky was born in 1866 Moscow and was a lawyer in his twenties. He began to paint only at the age of thirty when he moved to Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. Beginning in 1911 he began using music terms for his art and started calling his elaborate works, compositions. He became influenced by Theosophy and his first seven compositions are abstract images heralding the upcoming Apocalypse. In Composition VI Kandinsky is imaging the Apocalypse by Water. Kandinsky fled to France when the Nazi came to power and became a French citizen in 1939. He died in France in 1944. This painting is 300 cm wide and 195 cm high and is in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Nov 30 2010
Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913
French / German / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Wassily Kandinsky’s “Composition VII” of 1913. Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and was raised in Odessa. He began painting at the age of 30 and is credited as the first artist to paint a modern abstract work of art. After 22 years in Munich, Kandinsky returned to Russia in 1918 but found his art was not in favor. He returned to Germany, but the rise of the Nazis in 1933 led him to remove to France. He died there in 1944. This 1913 composition is one of Kandinsky’s most famous and is a wonderful study in form and color. The original painting is in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
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