Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) Russian artist, an expressionist painter Wassily Kandinsky is regarded as one of the first creators of abstraction in modern painting. His continuous quest for new forms and shapes rendered him as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky was born in December 4, 1866, in Moscow, Russia. Kandinsky spent his childhood emerged in the world of music. His parents played the piano and zither, and he played the piano and cello. This early musical exposure would become a major influence in many of his future works. Kandinsky did not always aspire to be an artist. In 1886, he enrolled at and graduated from the University of Moscow where he chose to study Law and Economics. After graduation, he lectured at the Moscow Faculty of Law. His change in career was a sudden decision that was made soon after attending a French Impressionist exhibition in 1895. At the age of 30, Kandinsky gave up his law career and went to Munich to study art. It did not take long for him to become established in his new career. His work was exhibited throughout Europe from 1903 onwards. His art was known for causing controversy amongst the public and his contemporaries. Kandinsky also became an active participant in several of the most influential and controversial art movements of the 20th century. In 1911, with Paul Klee, he founded the Blaue Reiter group, the new abstract school in Munich. Also, in 1922, he joined the Bauhaus group at Weimar where he developed his distinct geometric style. In 1933, when Hitler closed the Bauhaus, Kandinsky fled Germany. He settled in Neuilly, Paris. Just like his earlier works, the paintings from these later years became the subject of controversy. Because of his deviation from the popular style of art of the time, Kandinsky's abstract method was not well liked by many of the established artists in Paris. The younger artists of the community admired him, however. Some of his most notable works include Contrasting Sounds (1924), On White II (1923), and Autumn in Bavaria (1908). Kandinsky continued to paint up until the time of his death in June 1944.

MOCA Director Philippe Vergne, USC’s Suzanne Hudson, and artist Mary Weatherford discuss the work of Mark Rothko. Rothko’s paintings strive to express complex human emotions through vast color fields vibrating against one another. The works are physically bound by the edges of the canvas, but their impact lays in the experience of viewing. Director: Alexa Karolinski Cinematography: Ryan Carmody, Caleb Heller Editor: Grace Kline Music: Ben Sterling Color Grade: Nick Sander, The Mill Sound Mix: Owen Granich-Young

An interview with painter Agnes Martin at her studio in Taos in Nov. 1997. Support the filmmakers by watching the longer version here...https://vimeo.com/ondemand/agnesmartin

A new exhibition at Tate Liverpool compares the work of J.M.W. Turner, Claude Monet and Cy Twombly during the last decades of their lives. In this film, we explore the parallels in their style and subject matter with Mike Leigh, who describes Turner as the world's first modern painter, and who is in the process of developing a feature film on the artist; Fiona Rae, a painter herself, who reveals how astonishing Monet's works were for their time; and Tate director Nicholas Serota, who considers why certain artists, on reaching the twilight of their careers, develop a new-found sense of freedom in their work. Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings Tate Liverpool 22 June -- 28 October 2012 http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/turner-monet-twombly-later-paintings

Learn more About Art, Masters & Museums on YouTube: https://goo.gl/RkWdUY More movies by Claude Monet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUylRqJXNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLceAD2y8g8 Deze film hebben mijn dochter ★ en ik, haar vader, samen gemaakt. Sterre ★ "The Queen of Star Arts", heeft vandaag haar verjaardag gevierd en meer bloemen konden we niet vinden... Gefeliciteerd lieve schat, Papa houdt van jou... Voor altijd in mijn hart! Dikke kus van jouw Papa Claude Monet (French) geboren op 14 November 1840. Monet is overleden op 5 December (1926) Monet is founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). Early life Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him simply Oscar. He signed his juvenilia "O. Monet Despite being baptized Catholic, Monet, later on, became an atheist. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer. On 1 April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts. Locals knew him well for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857, he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin, who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting.[7] Both received the influence of Johan Barthold Jongkind. On 28 January 1857, his mother died. At the age of sixteen, he left school and went to live with his widowed childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. Learn more About Art, Masters & Museums on YouTube: https://goo.gl/RkWdUY -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "Claude Monet's Most Beautiful Garden Artworks and Water Lilies at Giverny" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLceAD2y8g8 -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-