바실리 칸딘스키(Wassily Kandinsky), 러시아, 화가, 1866-1944
러시아에서 태어난 추상미술의 선구자, '칸딘스키 Kandinsky (1866~1944)'는 모스크바대학에서 법률과 경제를 공부했습니다. 법학교수직도 제안받았으나, 학문의 길을 포기하고 예술가가 되기로 결심하죠.
서른 살 때 뮌헨으로 가서 그림을 배운답니다. 처음엔 모네의 작품 "건초더미" 시리즈를 보고 빛과 색채만으로도 감동을 주는 인상주의에 관심이 많았죠. 점차 유럽 문화에 적응이 되자, 야수파 스타일의 그림을 그렸답니다.
색에 관한 예민한 감각을 살려, 색채의 에너지를 강하게 묘사했습니다. 특히 바이에른의 작은 마을 무르나우(Murnau)에서 '가브리엘 뮌터'와 함께 살던 시절에는, 화려한 색상의 풍경화를 많이 그렸습니다.
이 무렵 칸딘스키는 엄청 아름다운 그림 한 점을 발견하게 되죠. 알고 보니 거꾸로 세워진 자신의 그림이었답니다. 이후, 칸딘스키의 예술은 추상으로 바뀌었습니다.
About Him
Wassily Kandinsky was born on December, 16th (4), 1866 in Moscow, in a well-to-do family of a businessman in a good cultural environment. In 1871 the family moved to Odessa where his father ran his tea factory. There, alongside with attending a classical gymnasium (grammar school), the boy learned to play the piano and the cello and took to drawing with a coach. "I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting lifted me out of the reality", he wrote later. In Kandinsky's works of his childhood period we can find rather specific color combinations, which he explained by the fact that "each color lives by its mysterious life".
However, Wassily's parents saw him in the future as a lawyer. In the year of 1886 he went to Moscow and entered Law Faculty of Moscow University. Graduating with honors, six years later Wassily married his cousin, Anna Chimyakina. In 1893 he became Docent (Associate Professor) of Law Faculty and continued teaching. In 1896 the famous in Derpt University in Tartu, where at that time the process of russification was taking place, a thirty-year-old Kandinsky was appointed Professor to the Department of Law, but at this particular time he decided to give up a successful career to devote himself completely to painting. Later on Kandinsky recollected two events, which had affected this decision: his visiting an exhibition of the French impressionists in Moscow in 1895 and an emotional shock he experienced from K. Monet's, "Haystacks", and an impression of Rihard Wagner's "Lohengrin" at the Bolshoi Theatre.
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