Tag: Wassily Kandinsky

  • Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out – book review

    To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words

  • With Graphic Intent

    With highlights from the Courtauld’s collection of German and Austrian modernist works on paper and some noteworthy loans, this is a must-see exhibition for anyone interested in early modernist expressionism and the graphic arts

  • The Cosmos of “Der Blaue Reiter” – From Kandinsky to Campendonk

    This show retraces the roots of the expressionist artists who made up the Blue Rider group, looking at the influences and connections that shaped them

  • Paule Vézelay: Living Lines

    This jewel-like exhibition showcases the work of the pioneering Bristol-born artist, who moved to Paris, changed her name, mixed with the likes of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Calder, and became a key figure in abstract art

  • Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider

    A long-overdue exhibition exploring the friendships and relationships, shared concerns and disagreements between the expressionist artists associated with the Blue Rider

  • Xiyao Wang: A Carnival in the Forest

    This colourful lyrical abstraction sweeps the viewer up in its kaleidoscopic eddies and perpetual vicissitude

  • The World According to Colour: A Cultural History – book review

    Oddly, a squashed fly triggered art historian James Fox’s fascination with colour and, in this ambitious study, he takes us on an epic journey showing the significance of various colours across the ages

  • Sophie Taeuber-Arp

    The passion and excitement of this multidisciplinary artist and designer shine through in an uplifting and joyous show

  • Kandinsky | Guggenheim Bilbao

    With 62 of Kandinsky’s paintings and works on paper, this exhibition charts the development of his style as he attempted to free painting from its ties to the natural world

  • Leila Heller – interview: ‘The Upper East Side is hot again and I love being back’

    Gallerist Leila Heller talks about showing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, after meeting them in New York clubs, promoting artists from the Middle East, her current show curated by Warhol’s muse – and why she has just…