Wassily Kandinsky
Retrospective at
The Milwaukee
Art Museum
By Renee Phillips
In some circles Milwaukee,
Wisconsin may be best known for
its brewing traditions, however it
is also internationally recognized
as the home of a major cultural
venue -- the Milwaukee Art
Museum. This iconic museum has
amassed a treasure trove of some
30,000 works of art and it
attracts more than 400,000
visitors each year.
A Monumental
Exhibition Than Spans
Several Decades
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Currently, through September 1,
2014, the Milwaukee Art Museum
is presenting “Kandinsky: A
Retrospective”. This stellar
exhibition follows all of
Kandinsky’s creative periods. More
than eighty works and documents
comprise this exhibition -- many
of which originate from the world
famous Kandinsky collection of
the Centre Pompidou.
In this monumental exhibition,
Kandinsky’s art is prominently
featured side by side with his
contemporaries in the Blaue Reiter
movement. This group was founded
by Kandinsky and other Russian
emigrants including Alexej von
Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin,
and native German artists, such as
Franz Marc, August Macke and
Gabriele Münter.
Wassily Kandinsky (Wassily
Wassilyevich Kandinsky, 1866 –
ALL PHOTOS BY LEAH WALKER.
C
olour is the keyboard, the
eyes are the hammers, the
soul is the piano with many
strings. The artist is the
hand which plays, touching
one key or another, to cause
vibrations in the soul.” Wassily
Kandinsky