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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)


MoMa - Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky🎨 /Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter🎨 and art theorist.
Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art🎨.
Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov 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 - 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 World War I.
Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting.


However, by then "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society", and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920.
There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.
He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art.
He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

































Kandinskij ‹kand'ìnsk'i›, Vasilij Vasil´evič - Pittore (Mosca 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine 1944).
Il principale esponente dell'astrattismo, in particolare dell'astrattismo non-geometrico, la sua ricerca di puri valori formali ha condotto a risultati della più grande importanza, soprattutto nello sviluppo dei rapporti linea-colore.
La sua arte, sulla quale influì verosimilmente la teoria della Einfühlung di W. Worringer, è indubbiamente ricca di motivi culturali e intellettualistici, ma giunge spesso a valori di libera poesia.
Tra le sue opere si ricordano in particolare:
Il corteo della sposa (1902-03, Monaco, Städtische Galerie), Der Blaue Reiter (1903, Zurigo, collezione E.G. Bührle), Murnau (1909, Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum), il primo acquerello astratto (1910, Neuilly-sur-Seine, collezione N. Kandinskij), Composizione IV (Düsseldorf, Schloss Jägerhof), Cerchio policromo (1921, New Haven, Yale University Gallery), Composizione VIII (New York, Guggenheim Museum).


Vita
La sua formazione culturale fu complessa: si occupò di letteratura, di musica (Wagner), di etnografia. Nel 1897 si recò a Monaco e si dedicò interamente alla pittura; studiò con F. von Stuck; viaggiò in Europa e in Oriente; fu in stretto contatto col musicista e pittore lituano M. K. Čiurljonis, che si dedicava allora a esprimere mediante variazioni coloristiche alcune sinfonie musicali.
Venne poi a contatto con gli espressionisti; fu tra i fondatori del gruppo Der Blaue Reiter.
Nel 1910 eseguì i primi dipinti totalmente privi di riferimento al mondo oggettivo e per lo più intesi a esprimere visivamente emozioni musicali; contemporaneamente scriveva Über das Geistige in der Kunst e tentava di sviluppare una teoria dei segni e dei colori.


Nel 1913 pubblicò uno scritto autobiografico: Rückblicke.
Nel 1914 tornò in Russia, partecipò attivamente ai movimenti d'avanguardia, insegnò (1920) nell'univ. di Mosca.
Tornò in Germania (1921) e, fino al 1933, insegnò nel Bauhaus di Weimar e di Dessau. Nel 1923 pubblicò il trattato Punkt und Linie zu Fläche.
Nel 1934 si stabilì a Parigi seguitando a dipingere composizioni astratte, ma più misurate e non prive di caratteri decorativi.
  • Opere
Tra le sue opere, oltre a quelle citate sopra, occorre citare gli acquerelli conservati nella collezione Kandinskij di Neuilly, oltre che gli ultimi, del 1939-44, con forme allusive a immagini. | © Treccani


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Wassily Kandinsky | Abstract painter


Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky / Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter🎨 and art theorist.
Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art🎨.
Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov 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 - 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 World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting.
However, by then "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society", and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920.


There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.
He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. | © Wikipedia

























Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij / Василий Васильевич Кандинский (Mosca, 16 dicembre 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 13 dicembre 1944) fu un pittore Franco-Russo, romanizzato anche come Vassily Kandinsky, precursore e fondatore della pittura astratta.
  • «L'arte oltrepassa i limiti nei quali il tempo vorrebbe comprimerla, e indica il contenuto del futuro.» Vasilij Kandinskij

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John William Waterhouse | L'ultimo dei PreRaffaelliti


John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) è stato un pittore Britannico🎨 di epoca Vittoriana, ultimo rappresentante dello stile dei Pre-Raffaelliti.
È noto soprattutto per i suoi soggetti mitologici e per le protagoniste femminili dei suoi dipinti, incarnazioni di grazia o donne fatali.
La produzione di Waterhouse può essere raggruppata per temi entro due filoni principali: le opere di ispirazione classica e le opere di ispirazione medievale, tra cui spiccano i numerosi Ofelia e La signora di Shalott, oltre ad altri dipinti a tema Shakespeariano.

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Robert McGinnis, 1926 | Romance illustrator

Robert McGinnis is a world-renowned painter whose prolific, award-winning artwork spans more than six decades.
In recognition of his excellent paintings, in 1993 he was elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. (The Society of Illustrators is a New York City-based nonprofit educational organization dedicated to celebrating and educating people about the art of illustration; http://society illustrators.org.) In the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, Robert joined the likes of Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Winslow Homer, Robert Peak, Frederic Remington and Frank McCarthy.
Robert’s artwork has been viewed by billions of people around the world, but most of them probably did not know, when they saw one of his images, that it was Robert who created the artwork.


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Robert McGinnis, 1926 | The Bond Girls


Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert McGinnis🎨, American illustrator, was raised in Wyoming, Ohio. McGinnis🎨 became an apprentice at Walt Disney studios, then studied fine art at Ohio State University.
After wartime service in the Merchant Marine he entered advertising and a chance meeting with Mitchell Hooks in 1958 led him to be introduced to Dell Publishing began a career drawing a variety of paperback covers for books written by such authors as Donald Westlake, Edward S. Aarons, Erle Stanley Gardner, Richard S. Prather, and the Michael Shayne and Carter Brown series.

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Alfred Cheney Johnston | Ziegfeld Follies showgirls


Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885-1971) was an American photographer🎨, known for his portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls as well as of 1920s and 1930s actors and actresses.
The only book known to have been published by Alfred Cheney Johnston during his lifetime devoted to his glamour photography is the 1937 spiral-bound softcover "Enchanting Beauty", which contains 94 black-and-white photos, mostly about 7x9 inches, centered on a 9x12-inch page, although a number are cropped circular or in other designs.

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Albert Lebourg | Impressionist painter


The French painter🎨 Albert-Marie Lebourg (1849, Montfort-sur-Risle - 1928, Rouen) was an landscape Impressionist🎨 and Post-Impressionist painter of the École des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
Member of the Société des Artistes Français, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style🎨, creating more than 2000 landscapes during his lifetime.
The artist was represented by Galerie Mancini in Paris in 1896, in 1899 and 1910 by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1903 and 1906 at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, and 1918 and 1923 at Galerie Georges Petit.

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Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924)


Daniel Ridgway Knight (15 March 1839 - 9 March 1924) was an American artist born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Knight was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Gleyre, and later worked in the private studio of Meissonier.
After 1872 he lived in France, having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine.
He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success. He earned his first major distinction in France at the Paris Salon in 1882 with his large oil on canvas Un Deuil.