Kandinsky Compositions
Kandinsky Compositions by Magdalena Dabrowski, published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on July 15, 2002, is a first edition featuring 128 pages in English. This book presents a detailed exploration of Vasily Kandinsky’s significant series of ten monumental canvases titled Compositions, which he created during the early 20th century. The author examines the context of these works, highlighting their formal principles and iconographical imagery, which held profound meaning for Kandinsky.
Readers will find a comprehensive study that reproduces all ten Compositions alongside their preparatory studies in various mediums, including oil, watercolor, ink, and pencil. The book also addresses the sensuous colorism that appeals to both amateur and specialist audiences. Notably, three of the paintings, lost during World War II, are represented through existing photographs, providing a unique glimpse into Kandinsky’s artistic legacy. This edition serves as a valuable resource for those interested in the evolution of abstraction and the significance of Kandinsky’s work in art history.
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Vasily Kandinsky was among the international vanguard artists who experimented with abstraction in the early years of the 20th century. His most powerful and ambitious works were ten monumental canvases he titled Compositions: he painted the first seven in intense succession between 1909 and 1913, and the final three in 1923, 1936, and 1939. Each of these brilliant paintings and their studies explores the sensuous colorism that amateur and specialist alike find so appealing in his art. In the first study devoted to Kandinsky’s Compositions as a series, the author unfolds the rich and powerful context of these eloquent images and reveals how their formal principles and iconographical imagery were of almost religious significance to Kandinsky. This book, for the first time, reproduces all ten of the Compositions, along with their studies in oil, watercolor, ink, and pencil. Three of the paintings, which were destroyed during World War II, are repesented through extant photographs.
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