An icon of abstract art—where color, freed from any subject, sets the soul vibrating.
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Weimar, spring 1925: The Bauhaus is celebrating its own demise, the students are raffling off their teachers—and in these very weeks, one of those teachers is painting a picture in which colors and shapes themselves are the subject. A look behind this painting reveals why a haystack and a Wagner opera turned a young legal scholar from Moscow into a painter, how Kandinsky came to call the soul a piano, and why we owe the survival of his work to two women.
Additional Resources
The painting at the museum: Centre Pompidou – Yellow-Red-Blue
The artist: Wikipedia – Wassily Kandinsky
The book discussed in this episode, in full: Project Gutenberg – Concerning the Spiritual in Art
The artists' group: Wikipedia – Der Blaue Reiter
The rider on the cover of the almanac: LACMA – Woodcut for the Almanac "The Blue Rider"
His widow who kept his work together: Wikipedia – Nina Kandinsky
The exhibition in Rome (September 15, 2026 – February 14, 2027): Centre Pompidou – Kandinsky at the Palazzo Bonaparte
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