Kandinsky, not only a painter

Written by John R. Garcia

Tuesday, 01 September 2009 00:00

John R. Garcia

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Not only was Kandinsky the father of the abstract painting but he was a musician too. It is not strange as he came from Russia, a land where music is a compulsory subject.
When he arrived to Germany, he entered in the Expressionist movements: “The Blue Rider”. However his mind cannot adjust to realistic forms. Music, the most abstract of all of the arts, had already trapped his soul and he had to look for freer techniques.
Avant-garde artists of the beginning of the 20th century had tried to separate plastic and literary ways of expression after centuries of submission to the literary and philosophical truths. They wanted to communicate ideas with lines, colours, materials, forms and volumes in a plastic free world, far away of written words and grammatical sentences (it was a way that Romanticism had started and that found now its culmination).
Kandinsky was going to change this tendency in a suppressive way, in a dialogue between painting and music which was going to create a new movement: Abstract Art.
His abstract work started to be developed in the Bauhaus: elegant stains which were speaking of tones and rhythms, of flying violins and pianos, of colourful orchestras. As the rest of the members of the Bauhaus, he has to leave Germany when Hitler took the power but his musical paintings are filling today the most important museums all around the world.
Abstract Art has had a big importance after 1945. In a world dominated by dictatorships and censures, artists felt freedom among stains without meaning. It is a pity; Kandinsky’s intention was quite different. It was the intention of a great musician and artist who had to joint both arts because both of them were part of his mind and life.

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