Annotations for Wassily Kandinsky

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

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Delacroix 

Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable, 1860, Musee du Louvre, Paris
Eugene Delacroix, French, 1798-1863.

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Cezanne 

Mont Sainte Victoire, 1885-87
Paul Cezanne
, French, 1839-1906.

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Gauguin 

Tahitian Women [On the Beach], 1891, Musee
d'Orsay, Paris
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French.

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The child draws a landscape 

Anonymous landscape, posted on the web. 
Sadler: "But there is no relation between them; they
stand isolated on his paper, mere lumpish shapes."

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Cimabue's Madonnas 

The Madonna in Majesty
1285-86. Cimabue was
born in Florence, Italy,  
as Cenni di Pepi 
(1240?-1302?)

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"Agony in the Garden" 

Agony in the Garden, 1889
Paul Gauguin
(1848-1903), French.

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Rousseau 

Tiger Attacking a Bull (In a Tropical Forest), c. 1908-9
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), French

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Herbin 

Green Landscape, c. 1901 Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)
This early painting clearly shows the influence of Cezanne and points the way to cubism.

 

 

This later painting by Herbin illustrates Sadler's point about cubism developing into design of lines and curves.

 

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Picasso 
Girl With a Mandolin, 1910
Pablo Picasso (1891-1973), Spanish


An example of his 
cubist phase

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Matisse 

The Dance, 1909
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), French.

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Last updated September 4, 2002