The city of Milan it often hosts interesting exhibitions and events. In particular a Royal Palace you can frequently admire the works of important artists that attract enthusiasts and tourists.
The exhibition of Kandinsky will remain open from 17 December to 27 April 2014 and presents 80 works by the Russian painter in a retrospective that tells his whole life, the vicissitudes and changes of style. The works come from the Center Pompidou collection and are displayed in chronological order, with inevitable references to historical events to which Kandinsky's life is inextricably linked.
The first paintings exhibited, those perhaps less known to the general public, are landscapes and views inspired by post-impressionism, the first formal experiments of the artist in search, however, of his personal style that he will then be able to develop and that made him famous and immortal: theabstractionism. In the exhibition it is in fact possible to follow the evolution, from the first works, to the changes of 1909 when the forms become less clear and more sketchy up to the real birth of the new artistic current of abstract art of which Kandinsky is one of the major exponents .
The first works were made while lived in Germany from which he was then forced to leave and return to Russia at the outbreak of the First World War.
Years of little artistic production followed, but of political-cultural activity, in which the painter had been involved, and which saw him engaged in his homeland.
In 1922 he was then called to Weimar as teacher at the Bauhaus, the school of architecture, art and design founded by Walter Gropius and which had great importance and was decisive in the artistic-architectural evolution of Europe and beyond. The influences of the German group are evident in the paintings made during the years he taught in Germany: rigid geometries, clear colors, precise lines. In this period he created the paintings, probably the most famous and attributable to the Russian painter.
This rigid geometry though softened in recent years, during the French period, the last before his death in 1944. The shapes became amorphous, organic, as if he wanted to represent objects under a microscope, the straight lines became curved and the colors softer. In reality, his was also an escape from reality, as well as a stylistic evolution. The Second World War had come and Kandinsky sought in his art an escape from the harsh and violent reality.
Among the paintings on display there are several famous ones, together with some less known ones, in particular there are some little known watercolors but equally representative and interesting to see.
It is one of those exhibitions that does not disappoint and deserves to be seen. The only warning: avoid holidays if you don't want to queue, or be patient or book online.
