THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM and KANDINSKY

        The Guggenheim Art Museum on Fifth Ave in New York City, now there's a day trip, the building alone is a masterpiece of architectural art work (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright).

        The Guggenheim is an international art museum collecting and exhibiting works primarily of contemporary and modern artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.

        So where does Kandinsky come into the picture, well it started in 1929 when philanthropist Solomon R Guggenheim began to acquire the works of Vasily Kandinsky.  Today the museum houses roughly 100 Kandinsky canvases and about 60 works on paper.

        The museum itself states that Kandinsky is the central figure in the history of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.  His works not only represent a part of the core and essence of the collection, but also helped to inspire the creation of the building.

        If you happen to be an non objective art enthusiast as I am, if you are ever in New York, The Guggenheim, is a must see.

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YOU HAVE GOT TO LOVE WASSILY KANDINSKY

   
        If you enjoy abstract art and appreciate abstract thinking, then you have got to love Wassily Kandinsky.  I guess that you have probably figured out by now, based on my previous blogs, that I love artists that view the world with an abstract slant, and use color to achieve it.
        

       Kandinsky once wrote "I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting lifted me out of reality".  In Kandinsky's works of his early period, we find specific color combinations, which he explained that "each color lives by it's mysterious life".

        Kandinsky once recollected two events, which affected his creative future; his visiting the French impressionists in Moscow in 1895, and an emotional shock he experienced from K Monet's "Haystacks", and an impression of Rihard Wagner's "Lohengin" at the Bolshoi Theatre

        In 1912 He published "Concerning the Spiritual in Art", turning upside down the established idea about art in general, this book became the first theoretical foundation for abstractionism.

        During the wartime, he named this period of his creativity,  "a really picturesque fairy tale".  Because of the shortage of materials the formats of his pictures became ever less, up to that moment when he was compelled to be content with gouache painting, which is a type of paint consisting of pigment, a binding agent (usually gum arabic) and sometimes added inert material, all on a cardboard format.

Below are three paintings from the period:Complex Simple 1939, Colorful Ensemble, 1938 and Sky Blue, 1940.

    To quote Kandinsky "Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with "reality" next to the"real" world.  Deeper down, it is subject to the common laws of the "cosmic world".  And so a "new world of art" is juxtaposed or placed side by side to the "world of nature'.  This "world of art" is just as real as concrete.  For this reason I prefer to call so-called "abstract art" "concrete art".

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