WASSILY KANDINSKY

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture by Gautam Shah

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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944) was Russia born. An expressionist turned Abstract Painter of early 20^th C. He graduated from Odessa Art School. His paintings reflect his love for music. He considered music to be an abstract medium that helps create an ‘art of high spiritual value rather than visual fidelity’.

Kandinsky, in 1911, declared ‘Must we not then renounce the object altogether, and instead lay bare the pure abstract?’

Kandinsky played a key role in forming ‘Der Blaue Reiter’, a group of avant-garde artists in Munich, which included Franz Marc and Paul Klee. He was a teacher at the Bauhaus Weimar(1922-1933), along with artists like, Josef Albers, Lazlo Maholy-Nagy, and Piet Mondrian. He believed that geometric forms, lines, and colours express the artist.

Kandinsky, once found one of his own paintings hanging upside down in his studio, and suggesting to him the potential power of abstraction.

Kandinsky ‘made colour theory an important part of the Bauhaus curriculum, and his preoccupation with primary form (basic geometric shapes including the triangle, circle, and square) and primary colours (red, blue, and yellow)’ influenced the new generation of art.

This set contains more Images by Wassily Kandinsky on Art of Architecture and less of Abstract Art. 

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PAUL NASH

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

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Paul Nash (1889-1946) was a multi-faceted surreal British artist. He was a romanticist and lyrical painter, who visualized the image through use of symbols and modernistic attitude. There are subtle effects of war in his depictions. He was a prolific and hugely talented artist, besides a keen photographer, writer, book illustrator and graphics artist. He designed stage scenery, fabrics and posters.

Paul Nash as a modernist painter, he greatly influenced the landscape art of early 20^th C. The paintings he produced during WW-I are among the most scenic abstractions of the conflict.

Paul Nash began with formal style, but gradually shifted to abstract and surreal style. There are great many symbolic motifs in this later day art. He often juxtaposed simple day to day objects with the uncanny scenes and nocturnal landscapes to achieve a new mystical identity.

During student days Nash struggled with figure drawing, and that reflects the absence of it in his art. From 1930s, Nash began to capture the world around through a camera. He often waited for hours to capture the scenic composition or light-shadow structure. 

 

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