Kandinsky at the Bauhaus
Six paintings. One concept
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Kandinsky joined the Bauhaus in 1922 and made an enormous contribution to this school until the Nazis closed it in 1933. A contribution that went far beyond the design and painting classes he taught.
During that period, the artist painted some of his most emblematic paintings of pure abstraction (pure or "total" abstraction does not attempt to represent visual reality but instead uses shapes, colors forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect).
But in addition, this is also the period in which Kandinsky made an enormous theoretical contribution to the universe of art about drawing, form, color, and composition. He theorized about all the elements or resources used in the creation of an art work, and the sense or spiritual meaning that they may represent.
As a theorist, the fundamental book he published during his Bauhaus period —specifically in 1926— is Point and Line to Plane which is the continuation of another important book: Concerning the Spiritual in Art.
Recommended links:
Fundamental Painters of the Bauhaus.
Kandinsky and the Abstraction.
Kandinsky and the Return to Russia.
Kandinsky and the Biomorphic Abstraction.
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