02 October 2006

Kandinsky@Tate ...


... is a pretty amazing exhibition. I caught it on the last day (typical of my well-organised life!), and it was dazzling. He is famous for abstract painting (see the picture above - Cossacks 1910–11 Tate © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2006), and I am sadly not its biggest fans. The exhibition traces his development from landscape to abstraction, and some of his paintings from the in-between periods are literally mind-blowing. My favourite is a tiny painting called "Moscow, Red Square", with its amazing bright light and colourful background, such a sense of hope ...