Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. Kandinsky's provocative thoughts on color theory, nature of art. Analysis of Picasso, Matisse, earlier masters. 12 illustrations.

Aparecido en 1926, Punto y linea sobre el plano es la continuacion organica de otro texto de Kandinsky tambien publicado por Paidos, De lo espiritual en el arte, y debe su origen, en su mayor parte, a la tarea que su autor habia asumido en la Bauhaus desde 1922. En efecto, tanto en su pintura como en sus ideas esteticas, Kandinsky mostro siempre una personalidad absolutamente vanguardista y provocadora de acaloradas polemicas. Y, en este sentido, la presente obra es uno de sus trabajos fundamentales, ya que, a la par que una esclarecedora contribucion al analisis de los elementos esenciales del quehacer pictorico, constituye una aportacion basica a la busqueda de un metodo generico para las investigaciones de las ciencias artisticas. El libro, finalmente, tambien revela a Kandinsky como un artista apasionado y siempre deseoso de explicar y explicarse las razones primeras y mas profundas de esa extrana y singular aventura que es la creacion artistica.

In this famous work by a pioneer in the movement to free art from the bonds of tradition-a work long considered essential to understanding the evolution of 20th-century art-Kandinsky explores the role of the line, point and other key elements of non-objective painting. 127 illustrations.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.

Collection of four documentaries about Russian avant-garde art collector George Costakis and the painters whose works feature in his collection. The films comprise: 'The Collector Costakis', 'Kazimir Malevich', 'Marc Chagall' and 'Kandinsky'.

Documentary about Russian avant-garde art collector George Costakis and the painters whose works feature in his vast collection. Director Barrie Gavin investigates the reasons behind Costakis's obsession with artists including Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko and takes a look at how he managed to protect them through the political disorder in Russia that saw many works of art destroyed.

2014 Reprint of 1914 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Wassily Kandinsky s contributions as a theorist were arguably more influential on modern art than any of his paintings. In this work, first published in 1914, Kandinsky both promotes and defends a form of art in which painters express themselves in abstract terms independent of the material world around them, much as musicians do. Divided into two parts, "About General Aesthetic" (including an examination of geometrical forms) and "About Painting" (a discussion of the psychology of color and the language and form of color), the work offers an insight into the mind of one of the most renowned of all abstract painters and a preview of the art that he was to produce in the years to come. Russian painter WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944), was one of the most famous artists of the 20th century and pioneered abstract art.