Artwork explained #3 : Vassily kandinsky - Auf weiss II

Kandinsky taught at the Bauhaus from 1922 until its closure by the Nazis in 1933. Considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, including Picasso and Matisse, he is the founder of abstract art : he is generally considered to be the author of the first non-figurative work in the history of modern art, a watercolor of 1910 that will be called "abstract" Kandinsky took up the theme and style of the '20s with diagonals crossing each other. But this painting is also reminiscent of certain paintings from the 1910s. Here we see the tension between two diagonals emanating from an almost square background whose white gives its title to the painting. In this regard, one thinks of Malevich's white squares, but also of what Kandinsky himself says from the bottom of his paintings: "I learned to fight with the canvas, to know it as a being resistant to my desire (= my dream), and to submit it to this desire by violence. At first she is there, like a pure and chaste virgin with a clear look, with celestial joy, that pure canvas which is itself as beautiful as a picture. Then comes the brush full of hope, sometimes here, sometimes there, conquers it little by little with all the energy of its own, like a European settler when through the wild Virgin Nature, to which nobody ever touched he makes his way through the ax, the spade, the hammer, the saw to bend it to his desire. " This painting and essentially constitute geometric form. Two large diagonals cross the board. Squares superimposed on each other give an impression of transparency, the three black lines on the bottom right are reminiscent of partition lines and the finer curve on the top left, like a turn around the yellow triangle. This picture stands out by these many colors but rather attenuated. The geometric shapes one is to be arranged in a plane differ. At the very top, the cross can be reminiscent of a propeller.

@Siavach, happy Steemian, photographer and art lover