Kandinsky: Life & Sorrow
Fri, Jun 06
|Richmond Library Annexe, online & replay
Most talks on Kandinsky tend to focus on one short period in his life. But his personal journey was so much more: from figurative to abstract, back to figurative, back to abstract with geometrical influences and later suprematist influences and finally his biomorphic phase. more info below
Time & Location
Jun 06, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Richmond Library Annexe, online & replay, Old Town Hall, Whittaker Ave, Richmond TW9 1TP, UK
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About the Event
Kandinsky life and trajectory is not often discussed. People tend to focus on moments in his artistic career, on some of his most recognisable and transformative works. But his life and personal journey are equally interesting, surprising, and at times very very sad.
This talk will look at al of it! From his very late start as an artist (he had studied law and economics at university) beginning with his early figurative works and inspiration from his travels through Europe, when he gets exposed to the Impressionists, the Pointillists and the Fauvists. To his slow evolution into abstraction , trying to visually capture what the experience of music feels like.
His return to his native Russia because of WWI, will mean a return to figurative art and a revisit of Russian folklore themes. However, back in Russia he will also get caught up in the Russian Revolution and will loose…
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