Kandinsky Cossacks

Kadinsky Cossacks

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Kandinsky ‘s special understanding of the affinities between painting and music and his belief in the Gesamtkunstwerk, or the total work of art

Symbolists loved Wagner – Germanic myths and legends

Lohengrin stirred Kandinsky. Moscow – beloved city of childhood

Melodic compositions revitalized by Paul Cezanne later by Symbolist Ferdinand Hodler

C�zanne’s Large Bathers within the text of On the Spiritual in Art, stating that the picture represents an example of this clearly laid out, melodic composition with open rhythms.

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