Moscow to New York: Vasily's colorful journey

Vasily Kandinsky's works are universally admired for their abstraction without shading the touch of beauty and color. Tracing his journey of life from his beginning in Moscow and Munich to his later years at the Bauhaus and then finally his years in exile in Paris, his style also evolved from his more colorful and loosely organized post-impressionist works to the complex, non-representational or "pure" abstractions.


Guggenheim Museum in NYC is having an exhibition of Kandinsky's works, which I had the fortune to see. Am too old fashioned as far as paintings are concerned, am still stuck with the Impressionists. Apart from those whose works are radically different and shocking (like Dali), painters from post-impressionism era can't cast a spell on me. Yet I really enjoyed Kandinsky's work, probably because his works document the change of time and in the styles of painting.

A major part of the Museum was inaccessible due to the work that is going on for Zaha Hadid's exhibition. She is an architect (winner of Pritzker Architecture prize) who tried her hands in the field of urban design as well, thus creating striking examples of artwork in varied media. Hope the exhibition would continue till my next visit to NYC.