Wassily kandinsky composition vii
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| Composition VI | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Wassily Kandinsky |
| Year | 1913 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Location | The State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia |
| Dimensions | 195 x 300 cm 76.8 x 118.1 in |
| Wassily Kandinsky Famous Paintings | |
| Der Blaue Reiter, 1903 | |
| Composition IV, 1911 | |
| Composition VII, 1913 | |
| On White II, 1923 | |
| Composition VI, 1913 | |
| Composition VIII, 1923 | |
| Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925 | |
| Black and Violet, 1923 | |
| Composition X, 1939 | |
| Complete Works |
It took Wassily Kandinsky almost 6 months to create Composition VI which was published in 1913. Initially, he intended the artwork to evoke baptism, flood, destruction as well as rebirth. Composition VI is regarded as Wassily’s most thought-provoking piece.
The painting comprises of a collage of a variety of semicircles, twisting lines and vibrant burst of colors. Twirl piles of matter spread all over like waves lit up by lightning flashes and soaked in thundery rainfall. This seems to create a universal calamity impression.
Technique
At first, Wassily outlined the piece on an oversized woode
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Wassily Kandinsky
Russian painter and art theorist (1866–1944)
"Kandinsky" redirects here. For other uses, see Kandinsky (disambiguation).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Wassilyevich and the family name is Kandinsky.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky[a] (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914 after the outbreak of Wor
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Composition VI, 1913 by Wassily Kandinsky
As the Der Blaue Reiter Almanac essays and theorizing with composer Arnold Schoenberg indicate, Kandinsky also expressed the communion between artist and viewer as being available to both the senses and the mind (synesthesia). Hearing tones and chords as he painted, Kandinsky theorized that (for example), yellow is the colour of middle C on a brassy trumpet; black is the colour of closure, and the end of things; and that combinations of colours produce vibrational frequencies, akin to chords played on a piano. Kandinsky also developed a theory of geometric figures and their relationships - claiming, for example, that the circle is the most peaceful shape and represents the human soul. These theories are explained in Point and Line to Plane.
During the studies Kandinsky made in preparation for Composition IV, he became exhausted while working on a painting and went for a walk. While he was out, Gabriele Munter tidied his studio and inadvertently turned his canvas on its side. Upon returning and seeing the canvas (but not yet recogn
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