Slow Art Sunday - Kandinsky

This week’s headliner for Slow Art Sunday is Wassily Kandinsky’s “Squares And Concentric Circles”.  This colourful painting was done by the Russian artist with watercolour, gouache and crayon and was completed in 1913 as a small (9” x 12”) colour study.  Kandinsky pioneered the way into abstract painting believing that circles were a foundational building block in art.  They feature prominently his art and he is known for saying that everything starts from a dot.

Kandinsky gave up a promising career in law and economics to enroll in an art academy at the age of 30. He had great interest in the psychology and “sound” of colour and dedicated much of his time to personally study this field.

During WW2, a few of his paintings were involved in the Nazi looting of art. After his death there were battles over where his recovered work belonged, but eventually they were gifted to Holocaust victims.

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