Archive for posts tagged with ‘Composition’


Apr 16 2011

Composition VI by Wasily Kandinsky

Academician / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc

Composition VI by Wasily Kandinsky

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.

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Dec 7 2010

Flagellation de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, William Adolphe Bougereau, 1880

Academician / Bouguereau / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Flagellation de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, William Adolphe Bougereau, 1880

A reproduction of one of the greatest religious masterpieces by the master of Academic French Neo-classicism, William Adolphe Bougereau. The original work is life-sized. There is no greater work in which perspective, pathos and composition are so marvelously intertwined.  The original is at the Musee des Beaux-Arts in La Rochelle, France.

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Nov 30 2010

Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913

French / German / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian - 1 year ago - troycapc

Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913

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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