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...Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) casts a long shadow over modern art. His career took him to most of its centers: Munich before World War I, Russia, and next a long sojourn at the Bauhaus in Germany during the 1920s, then a last expatriation to Paris after the rise of Hitler. If ever a painter carried his culture in one portable labyrinth on his back, as if he were a rambling snail, it was Kandinsky. And while he did not invent abstract art on his own (as he and his admirers were given to claim), he certainly did more...
Such a life, woven through so many cultural milieus, is not easily condensed into one retrospective show. The Guggenheim Museum in New York has set out to describe it in three parts, the first of which, "Kandinsky in Munich: 1896-1914," is now on view. It is focused, not exclusively on the text of Kandinsky's own paintings, but on their context as well. What did he see in Munich? What did he get from other artists' work? The exhibition, closely and intelligently curated by Art Historian Peg Weiss, is therefore largely about the Jugendstil, or youth-style...
...than that was not worth I having. Being a Russian, Kanmdinsky had been formed by the tradition of the religious icon. But he was also a Theosophist, an ardent follower of one of the most influential gurus of the day, Mme. Blavatsky, and the cultural centers of Europe, including Munich, were as full of odd parareligious cults then as California is now. It was Mme. Blavatsky's opinion that before long the material world would vanish, leaving behind its "essence," a world of spirit. Elect souls, the survivors of this benevolent burnout, would communicate with one another...
...hesitations might well have been the best execution he could unconsciously devise, he hesitated about moving out of his parents' home, staying on until he was over 30, despite the constant noise and lack of privacy, he hesitated about leaving Prague, passing up an opportunity to study literature in Munich when he was 19 and confining himself to the city except for business trips and sanitorium stops: he hesitated about leaving his job with the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, despite the drain on his energies and the interference with his creative work; and finally, in his relationships with women...
...fifth as both men's and women's coach, Walker has guided what he describes as an "evolution" in Harvard diving. Nationally recognized, Walker has coached several U.S. international teams, and at the University of Minnesota he helped Craig Lincoln win a bronze medal in the 1972 Munich Games...