Vasily Kandinsky. Yakimovich A.K.

The book considers the work of Vasily Kandinsky in the complex unity of its species, genres and styles - from realistic landscapes and portraits to abstract paintings of mature and late periods, from absurd verses to theatrical scenes and scenographic experiments and to philosophical texts in the field of art theory. The diverse legacy of the master is represented in a historical context. We are talking about the so -called getting rid of reality (or a great rejection of the vision of the real in art). This most important fracture in the development of artistic culture is linked to the crisis of ideocratic consciousness at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, with the so -called ontological turn in different arts - from poetry to painting.

Kandinsky turned out to be the creative person who came into contact with key trends and phenomena in the art of Russia and Western Europe.

He witnessed and participant in the avant-garde revolutions in Germany and Russia, observed and experienced the grave consequences of the fatal socio-political experiment of the Soviet regime, was forced to escape from the Nazi Germany and experienced the dramatic events of the German occupation of France. Before us is a biography of a creative personality, the equal of a complex and dramatic era of the turn of the centuries and the first half of the twentieth century.

The publication is addressed to a wide range of art lovers.