The magnificent retrospective at the Pompidou Centre insists first on the painter Kandinsky, sometimes obscured by the great theorist creator abstract art.
Most of the critical discourse on Kandinsky addresses the theoretical dimension of his work, including the radical decision to move into abstraction, the choice to switch from figurative painting to abstract art. It was written thousands of pages on the reasons for such a revolution, the warning signs, and the many implications of this inaugural decision. (With the black arc)
Exposure Beaubourg has the merit of one more step to provide access to the painting itself, rather than theory. It does not in fact answer the question "How did we go to abstraction?" but it must be told that "what we do once you're inside?" What happens once he crossed the Rubicon once the decision to move from side abstract painting? That's where we discovered, not without astonishment, the extraordinary richness of forms, diversity of abstract patterns painted and progressive on for decades, Russia, Germany, France.
A countdown to the naive intuition that "all resemble abstract paintings," or false intuition that "if we delete the object, there is only emptiness, or chaos, "Kandinsky's work reflects the richness of the graphical abstract universe. There are impressions, compositions and improvisations. The tables in the beginning, still imbued with Russian folk tales, and piles of colors and arches, with irregular spots. Followed by rigorous geometric compositions, the alphabet mathematical forms and biomorphic figures, small animals and hieroglyphics by which painting verges on writing (composition VIII).
The surprise - and shock - of this exhibition, beyond the chance to cross the all of the work of Kandinsky thanks to special loans from the three largest museums in the world, is undoubtedly the presentation of stunning watercolors of painter and in particular those the collection of Alexander Kojeve acquired in 2001. They are considered in their full flavor for the work on canvas, they are like a double-secret, underground, that Kandinsky has continued to compose in parallel. There's illustrations of children's stories, painting projects, small jewelry unprecedented color quality (untitled, 1915, donation from Kandinsky).
These works, which was aptly named the "secret of Kandinsky paintings" to complete this huge retrospective at the number of exposures that do not forgotten.
Centre Georges Pompidou until August 10 View as always thematic dossier prepared by the staff of the museum.
Not something posed for itself, but an environment in which one bathes
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