Artist Twitter Backgrounds: Kandinsky
This week’s artist Twitter backgrounds were made from the beautiful work of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866. He studied law and economics at the University of Moscow and due the success in his profession, Kandinsky was offered a professorship at the University of Dorpat. It wasn’t until the age of 30 that he started painting studies.
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In 1896 he settled in Munich to study at the private school of Anton Ažbe and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He went back to his home country in 1914 but he didn’t approve of its theories on art. This is why he returned back to Germany in 1921, where he started teaching at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture until it was closed in 1933.
He then moved to France and stayed there for the rest of his life as a French citizen. He obtained the French citizenship in 1939.
Kandinsky was part of the expressionist and abstract art movement. He was one of the first painters that used pure abstraction in modern paintings. He was also the founder of the influential Munich group, “Der Blaue Reiter”.
Kandinsky is also known as a theorist, as he developed several theories on sound and geometric figures and their relationships. He was suffering from a neurological condition called synesthesia, which consists in one type of stimulation (cognitive or sensory) evoking another, mostly involuntary, cognitive or sensory stimulation.
This condition can have different forms, as for Kandinsky, he suffered from sound-colour synesthesia, where “the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color”. That’s why he associated colours to sounds and vice versa.
Kandinsky died in France (Neuilly-sur-Seine) in 1944 and left a great legacy as one of the founders of abstract art.
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Kandinsky Twitter Backgrounds
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