Wassily Kandinsky

Hajo Düchting

A Revolution in Painting

Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944

Cezanne painted painted still-lifes and landscapes, portraits and spatial and visual values that influenced the Modernist painters who followed.

Nature Into Art

Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906

Claudia Hellmann

Nina Kozel

Now available in a new edition, this book offers a stunning visual history of 100 years of design.

50 Designers You Should Know

This accessible look at Kleeís life and art displays the many facets that make his career so intriguing. Filled with personal photographs, quotations from the artist, and beautiful reproductions of his colorful paintings, watercolors, and prints, this volume introduces readers to the various themes that occupied Klee throughout his life. The book explores topics such as Munich between two world wars; the artists whom Klee befriended in the Blue Rider Group and at the Bauhaus; the music that continued to inspire him; and the illness that marked his final years. A fascinating introduction for anyone interested in learning about this renowned artist, here is a book that is as readable as it is informative. AUTHOR: Hajo Duchting is an art historian and author of numerous books. ILLUSTRATIONS 120 illustrations

Living Art

Paul Klee

Now available in paperback, this illuminating work examines the fascinating bond between music and painting in Paul Klee's art. A talented violinist as well as a painter, Klee drew much of the inspiration for his abstract art from musical rhythms and structure. Like a composer, he developed and harmonized pictorial themes, weaving a complex series of signs and symbols into his painting. Art historian Hajo Duchting focuses his study primarily on Klee's decade-long tenure at the Bauhaus, where the artist's theories and practice first merged, and where he was to develop his Color Spectrum, Square, and Polyphone painting series. Illustrated throughout with full-color reproductions of Klee's paintings and etchings, as well as entries from his diaries, this unique study sheds light on an important aspect of Klee's work while providing insights into his development as an abstract artist.

Painting Music

The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blauer Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the "First Abstract Watercolour" of 1910. In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of colour through the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colours". Kandinsky was the first to realise this and thus to influence a whole range of artists. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Vasily Kandinsky was one of the first painters of abstract art and a founding member of the Blue Rider movement. Although he trained as a lawyer, Kandinsky abandoned this career path to devote himself to art, both as a creator and an influential teacher and theorist at the Bauhaus. Over time, Kandinsky's works grew more abstract, and he is best known for large, expressive paintings that free color from form and line. The book covers the entire span of his career, focuses in particular on his time at the Bauhaus, where he collaborated with Lyonel Feininger and Paul Klee. Lively, accessible, and lavishly illustrated, this new book offers a concise introduction to the life and work of this great master of art.

Vasily Kandinsky

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Join the heady ride of Der Blaue Reiter, the group of artists who galloped just three years of the early 20th century together, but in their rejection of establishment standards and charge into a new artistic realm marked a major step in the evolution of European Expressionist and abstract art.

The Blaue Reiter

Jörg Jewanski

Im 20. Jahrhundert sind Bildende Künstler wie Komponisten von ihrer Nachbardisziplin fasziniert und auch etwas neidisch auf die jeweils anderen künstlerischen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten. Aber was meint die Kulturwissenschaft zu diesen Vermischungen, Verfransungen und unverhohlenen Grenzübergängen, bei denen sich jeder Kunstschaffende das holt, was er gerade für die Gestaltwerdung seiner Kreativität braucht? In diesem Buch werden die nötigen Schritte einer Untersuchung dieser Grenzphänomene in beide Richtungen unternommen: sowohl in die kunst- als auch in die musikwissenschaftliche. Und es werden verblüffende und überraschende Erkenntnisse und Übersichten gewonnen. Wer nach der Lektüre durch die Museen und Konzertsäle der Welt streift, wird manches anders sehen und hören. Ob polyphone Malerei, Musik nach Bildern, Klangskulpturen, Farbenklaviere oder Schallplattencover ... der Reichtum an Fantasie vieler Künstler auf beiden Gebieten ist erstaunlich und bereichert jeden, der Augen hat zu sehen und Ohren zu hören!

Begegnungen – Berührungen – Beeinflussungen

Musik und Bildende Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert

Now available in a new edition, this book offers a stunning visual history of 100 years of design. Designers have shaped our modern age, whether it's the chair we're sitting in, the computer we're reading on, or the house we're living in. Design is everywhere, and this volume profiles fifty of the most influential figures over the past one hundred years. From the first bentwood chairs by Thonet to the holistically designed worlds of Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, and from the signature styles of designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Eileen Gray, and Philippe Starck to internationally known brands like Swatch, Muji, and Apple, the designers presented here are profiled in double-page spreads packed with fascinating background information, photographs, and illustrations. As inspiring as it is informative, this far-reaching book celebrates the impact that design has on our daily life.

Gottfried Boehm

Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Munich). Kunsthalle

Ann Eden Gibson

"This illustrated volume examines the lines of influence leading from Monet to the great modern exponents of Abstract Expressionism. The book emphasizes the innovative aspects of Monet's late works, including his famous waterlily paintings and Rouen Cathedral series. His paintings are juxtaposed with those of 30 modern artists, including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Ellsworth Kelly." "The ground-breaking importance of Monet's late work was long underestimated by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century. For them Cezanne was the father of modern art. It was only in the 1950s that the Abstract Expressionists in America and Europe began to recognize and build upon Monet's achievements. This fascinating volume provides fresh insight into the works of Monet and the followers of Abstract Expressionism in its various American and European manifestations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Monet and Modernism

Throughout his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky transformed not only his own practice, but the course of art history itself. This essential guide traces Kandinsky's rich repertoire to present the painter, engraver, teacher, and theorist credited with the first modern abstract painting and with one of the keenest theoretical minds of 20th-...

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