Vasily Kandinsky. Yakimovich A.

Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky (1866-1944) - one of the brightest and most original artists of the XX century. Its main achievement is considered abstract painting related to the gold fund of avant -garde art. In addition, he was an outstanding writer, playwright and theater director, art theoretician and teacher, who developed his methodology for teaching arts. The book proposes a psychological portrait of an artist, immersed in doubt and search, internal conflicts, difficult relationships and disputes with time and contemporaries. The dramatic turns of the fate of the master were as if he had lived a few lives. On the pages of the book, the reader will find a numerous galaxy of people of art and historical personalities with whom Kandinsky had certain relations - from painters of Russia and Germany to the largest musicians and poets of different countries, as well as thinkers and scientists of the beginning and the first half of the 20th century.