Art up Close and in Context: Wassily Kandinsky, Dominant Curve 1936
Sun 17 Jan
|Online live and replay
This lecture explores Wassily Kandinsky’s journey towards abstraction through his painting Dominant Curve, examining how his artistic experimentation, theoretical writings and experiences in Germany and Paris shaped his distinctive visual language and expressive use of colour and form.
Time & Location
17 Jan 2027, 16:00 – 17:00
Online live and replay
About the Event
The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky spent most of his career in Germany, where he was central to
developments in German Expressionism and, after the First World War, a key figure at the Bauhaus
school.
He is famous for his systematic pursuit of abstraction, a process he developed through constant material experiments and a series of theoretical writings (including Concerning the Spiritual
in Art, of 1912).
The painting Dominant Curve exemplifies the practice of his later years, after emigrating to Paris when National Socialist policy made it impossible for him to continue working in Germany. Beginning with the curious formal relationships and optimistic colour palette of this painting, the discussion in this lecture will work selectively backwards through the artist’s career, pausing to examine significant steps in a developing grammar of abstraction.
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