KANDINSKY ~ ON ABSTRACT ART
“Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with ‘reality,’ next to the ‘real’ world.” Wassily Kandinksy 1866-1944
Russian painter
ILYA REPIN ~ MOONLIGHT
“Moonlight” by Ilya Repin “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” W. Clement Stone
MIKHAIL VRUBEL ~ NIGHT
“Night” 1900 by Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) Mikhail Vrubel was a versatile artist who excelled in painting, graphics, sculpture, as well as in monumental and applied arts. His name is routinely associated with Russian Symbolism and Art Nouveau and perhaps rightly so. Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel was born in 1856 in the city of Omsk in Western Siberia to a family of a military lawyer. His mother died when he was not yet three years old and his father remarried four years later. Vrubel’s stepmother was a good pianist and helped...
