CentroCentro in Madrid hosts Wassily Kandinsky exhibitOctober 28, 2015 - 14:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Nearly 150 years after the birth of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), one of the greatest pioneers of abstract art, CentroCentro in Madrid celebrates his artistic and spiritual journey with an exhibition spanning four decades of artistic evolution from early figurative works to exuberant experiments in abstraction and color, Art Daily reports. Produced and organized by CentroCentro in Madrid, the Centre Pompidou of Paris, and the Arthemisia Group, the exhibition is curated by the art historian Angela Lampe, curator at the Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou, as a major monographic retrospective featuring around 100 paintings, drawings and photographs drawn from the rich collections of the Centre Pompidou. Almost all of these stunning works were part of the artist’s personal collection and were given by the artist’s widow, Nina. Deeply impressed both by Monet’s Haystacks series at the Moscow Impressionist exhibition of 1896 and the staging by Wagner’s opera Lohengrin, Kandinsky abandoned a university career in law and economy to become, at the age of thirty, a painter in Germany. In addition to undertaking the classic course of studies under the guidance of masters such as Anton Azbé and Franz von Stuck in Munich, he travelled around Europe (even until Tunis in 1904/05) and stayed at Sèvres near Paris from 1906 to 1907 (Park of Saint-Cloud, 1906). He developed an artistic vision encompassing numerous fields, including painting and music, in which he pursued and championed what he defined as “the spiritual in art” in the essay of that name, written between 1904 and 1911 to encapsulate his ideas. The sections of the exhibition retrace the key periods in Kandinsky’s life, from the early years in Germany to those in Russia, the return at the Bauhaus in Weimar and then the last years in France, through a host of crucial works such as Old Town (1902), Chanson (1906), Improvisation III (1909), In Grey (1919), Yellow-Red-Blue (1925) and Sky Blue (1940). The exhibition develops in chronological order in four sections over eight rooms. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Your home is in Armenia – Ameriabank offers mortgage loans for the Diaspora To buy real estate, Diasporans can apply to Ameriabank online to buy, renovate or build a home anywhere in Armenia. Armenia-Qatar ties discussed in Doha The Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council met with the Deputy Secretary General of the National Security Council of Qatar. Surveying works underway in Armenia’s Kirants Surveying works are underway in the Armenian village of Kirants in the northern Tavush province. Armenia calls for prohibiting threats of attacks on nuclear facilities Armenia has raised the need for a treaty prohibiting attacks on nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes. |