Colorful Life by Wassily Kandinsky

Description

The roots of A Colorful Life, just like those of Wassily Kandinsky himself, were firmly anchored in age-old Russian soil. And yet the painting contains all the elements that were to accompany the painter in the greatest revolution in the history of art: the leap into abstraction. This documentary examines Kandinsky's rejection of Western thought and efforts to preserve Russian culture during modernization. He contracted typhus during a trip to study peasant life; his feverish hallucinations inspired the work that evokes a forgotten golden age sought after by Russian Symbolist painters and poets. Finally, viewers learn about the philosophies on color and light that led him to compose his famous Yellow-Red-Blue.

Runtime

26 min 19 sec

Series

Database

Films on Demand

Direct Link

Similar Films

The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Eugène Delacroix
The Moneylender And His Wife (1514) by Quentin Metsys. Smart Secrets of Great Paintings
A Lady in Her Bath by Francois Clouet
Bathers at Asnieres (1884) by Georges Seurat. Smart Secrets of Great Paintings
The Artist's Studio (1855) By Gustave Courbet. Smart Secrets of Great Paintings
Las Meninas (1665) by Diego Velázquez. Smart Secrets of Great Paintings
Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France and Her Children by Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
The Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia by Jean Fouquet