Trivium Art History
Wassily Kandinsky —How to paint music1866 — 1944
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions.
Concerning the Spiritual in Art — Part 1
1910A first encounter with any new phenomenon exercises immediately an impression on the soul.
Concerning the Spiritual in Art — Part 2: About Painting
1910
Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor)
1910Composition 5
1911Romantic Landscape
1911Watercolor 6
1911Improvisation 28 (second version)
1912Composition 6
1913Composition 7
1913Portrait of Nina Kandinsky
1917Untitled
1923Composition 8
1923On White II
1923Circles in a Circle
1923Yellow Red Blue
1925Several Circles
1926Violet-Orange
1936Dominant Curve
19361801
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Elena Brockmann
Wassily Kandinsky
Käthe Kollwitz
Gaganendranath Tagore
2000
Telling the mystic tales of Finland
Grabbing history painting by the horns
Printmaker & social activist
A Bengali Japanese fusion in watercolor
The artists of Early Modernism
Umberto Boccioni — Why can’t I stop painting my mother?
1882-1916Piet Mondrian — There is no God — only Truth
1872-1944Henri Matisse — 100% artist
1869-1954Marc Chagall — A painter of inner and outer worlds
1887-1985Giorgio Morandi — What if you only painted bottles for your whole life?
1890-1964Hilma af Klint — The world isn't ready
1862-1944Wassily Kandinsky — How to paint music
1866-1944Anne Goldthwaite — Artist turns modernism into equal rights activism
1869-1944Amrita Sher-Gil — A woman brings Indian tradition into modernism
1913-1941Sigrid Hjertén — A genius colorist fights schizophrenia
1885-1948Theo van Doesburg — Ending a friendship over diagonal lines
1883-1931Pablo Picasso — The man who ate the world's art
1881-1973Alice Neel — The unblinking anxiety of modern life
1900-1984John Singer Sargent — Portrait Painter Extraordinaire
Marsden Hartley — Spirituality comes first, cult status second
1877-1943Ibrahim Kodra — Sponsored by a queen
1918-2006