ART SCHEGE - Vasily Vasilevic Kandinsky (1866-1944)

 ART SCHEGE - Vasily Vasilevic Kandinsky (1866-1944)

ART SATURDAY: IMPRESSION VI by Vasily Kandinsky

The giant Composition VI is one of the most significant works of the Monacense period, a painting that engaged the artist who wrote to his friend Franz Marc on March 8, 1913: ′′ I carried this picture in me for a year and half and often I had to think that I would never have done it ". The complicated genesis, testified also by the numerous sketches and preliminary projects, is also described in detail in the article published in 1913 in Der Sturm magazine. The starting point of the work was the glass picture of the Universal Flood of a previous year and today lost. But if figurative and narrative elements were still surviving there, such as animals, people, plants, lightning and rain, every memory of mimicism is lost in shattered forms, long strips, lines, dark shapes and colors, making the painting the first abstract work In the strict sense of the series of Compositions in which the original motif of the picture dissolves and transforms into a purely pictorial, autonomous and objective inner essence. From the two main centers of the painting - on the left a core that Kandinsky calls ′′ sweet, rosaceo ′′ and on the right a ′′ coarse, red-blue, dissonant ′′ core - a third in the center that ′′ determines the inner sound of the whole picture ′′ where pink and white colors seem to float on the canvas.

Massimo Rogero

Club President for UNESCO of Genoa

President of International Action Art-Italy

1913, Impression VI (Saturday), oil on canvas, 195 × 300 cm, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg