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The Blue Rider (Kandinsky)
The Blue Rider (German: Der Blaue Reiter) is a 1903 oil painting by Wassily Kandinsky. The work depicts a rider in a blue cloak riding on a white horse through a meadow, with a forest in the background. The painting uses bright colors, repetition of shapes and short brush strokes creating a sense of motion.
The painting contains elements of many different art movements and it marks Kandinsky's transition from figurative art to abstraction. Interpretations of the painting suggest a heavy use of symbolism; for example, critics associate the rider with Saint George, and that he is fighting the dragon of materialism.
The Blue Rider may have inspired the name of the art group and almanac, Der Blaue Reiter. Both founded by Kandinsky in collaboration with Franz Marc. This movement played a key role in the development of abstract art.
Wassily Kandinsky studied law and political economy at the Moscow State University (MSU) in 1886. At the MSU, Kandinsky befriended Nikolai Kharuzin, an ethnography student, who prompted Kandinsky's interested in the field, soon becoming involved in the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography (OLEAE). In 1889, he went on an ethnographic excursion, sponsored by the OLEAE, to study the Komi people in the Vologda Oblast. There he encountered brightly painted traditional houses, an experience he later called a “miracle” that influenced his art.
At the age of 30, Kandinsky decided to dedicate himself to art. This choice was effected by his struggle to recognize the subject in one of Claude Monet's Haystacks. Kandinsky wrote about this experience:
That it was a haystack, the catalogue informed me. I didn’t recognize it. I found this nonrecognition painful, and thought that the painter had no right to paint so indistinctly. I had a dull feeling that the object was lacking in this picture. And I noticed with surprise and confusion that the picture not only gripped me, but impressed itself ineradicably upon my memory, always hovering quite unexpectedly before my eyes, down to the last detail.
— Wassily Kandinsky, Reminiscences,
As well as his attendance of a performance of the opera, Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner, which incited him to connect color and sound. Kandinsky was also influenced by Helena Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner, important figures in theosophy and anthroposophy, respectively. Their ideas would strongly shape Kandinsky's artistic concepts, such as "inner necessity" and "vibration" and his move towards abstract.
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The Blue Rider (Kandinsky)
The Blue Rider (German: Der Blaue Reiter) is a 1903 oil painting by Wassily Kandinsky. The work depicts a rider in a blue cloak riding on a white horse through a meadow, with a forest in the background. The painting uses bright colors, repetition of shapes and short brush strokes creating a sense of motion.
The painting contains elements of many different art movements and it marks Kandinsky's transition from figurative art to abstraction. Interpretations of the painting suggest a heavy use of symbolism; for example, critics associate the rider with Saint George, and that he is fighting the dragon of materialism.
The Blue Rider may have inspired the name of the art group and almanac, Der Blaue Reiter. Both founded by Kandinsky in collaboration with Franz Marc. This movement played a key role in the development of abstract art.
Wassily Kandinsky studied law and political economy at the Moscow State University (MSU) in 1886. At the MSU, Kandinsky befriended Nikolai Kharuzin, an ethnography student, who prompted Kandinsky's interested in the field, soon becoming involved in the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography (OLEAE). In 1889, he went on an ethnographic excursion, sponsored by the OLEAE, to study the Komi people in the Vologda Oblast. There he encountered brightly painted traditional houses, an experience he later called a “miracle” that influenced his art.
At the age of 30, Kandinsky decided to dedicate himself to art. This choice was effected by his struggle to recognize the subject in one of Claude Monet's Haystacks. Kandinsky wrote about this experience:
That it was a haystack, the catalogue informed me. I didn’t recognize it. I found this nonrecognition painful, and thought that the painter had no right to paint so indistinctly. I had a dull feeling that the object was lacking in this picture. And I noticed with surprise and confusion that the picture not only gripped me, but impressed itself ineradicably upon my memory, always hovering quite unexpectedly before my eyes, down to the last detail.
— Wassily Kandinsky, Reminiscences,
As well as his attendance of a performance of the opera, Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner, which incited him to connect color and sound. Kandinsky was also influenced by Helena Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner, important figures in theosophy and anthroposophy, respectively. Their ideas would strongly shape Kandinsky's artistic concepts, such as "inner necessity" and "vibration" and his move towards abstract.
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