Art by Marc and Kandinsky

 

 

 

Marc
Author: Partsch, Susanna
Softcover, flaps, 185 x 230 mm, 96 pages
Series: Basic Art Series

Franz Marc - Painter of animals and co-founder of the 'Blauer Reiter' group of Expressionist artists

The quest f or a universal art which would resolve the contrarieties of life in the harmony of creation: ISBN: 3-8228-5644-4 

Franz Marc (1880-1916) became known principally for his images of animals: blue horses, yellow tigers, red fawns. What was it that led him to concentrate on painting animals? Marc himself explained his choice of subject matter in these words: "From an early date I felt humankind to be 'ugly'; animals seemed to me possessed of a greater beauty and purity..."

Seeing Marc merely as a painter of animals proves, however, premature. Marc, co-founder of the 'Blauer Reiter' group of Expressionist artists, was deeply dissatisfied with the impurity of the world, and was questing for a universal art which would resolve the contrarieties of life in the harmony of creation.

Using pure colours highly charged with symbolic values, adopting crystalline shapes, and absorbing the influence of Cubism, he moved steadily towards an abstract order of image, coming closer to his own understanding of a better world. In 1916, Franz Marc died in the Battle of Verdun.
Editions:
English: 3-8228-5644-4

Dutch: 3-8228-6251-7
French: 3-8228-5759-9
German: 3-8228-5585-5
Portuguese: 3-8228-1182-3

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Kandinsky
Author: Düchting, Dr. Hajo
Softcover, flaps, 185 x 230 mm, 96 pages
Series: Basic Art Series

Wassily Kandinsky - founder and chief theoretician of abstract art   

Kandinsky - The founder of abstract art: ISBN: 3-8228-5982-6  

A Revolution in Painting

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting.

Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blauer Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the "First Abstract Watercolour" of 1910.

In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of colour through the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colours". Kandinsky was the first to realise this and thus to influence a whole range of artists.
Editions:
English: 3-8228-5982-6

Croatian: 9-0000-0165-X (August 2003)
Dutch: 3-8228-6835-3
French: 3-8228-5941-9
German: 3-8228-6360-2
Italian: 3-8228-0901-2
Japanese: 4-88783-151-X (September 2002)
Portuguese: 3-8228-6131-6
Russian: 5-88896-093-4
Spanish: 3-8228-6547-8

List Price:
GBP 10.99 |plus £1.50 p&p (£11.49)