This is a photo from 1886. Wassily Kandinsky is 20 years old. He plays cello. The score is placed on a music stand that resembles an easel, the right hand holding a bow that could be a long brush. However anecdotal, the comparison in some sense symbolizes the fate of the artist. After Paul Klee in 2011, Marc Chagall in 2015 and Pablo Picasso in 2020, the Musée de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris, in co-production with the Center Pompidou, continues with the exhibition “Kandinsky. The music of colors » the exploration of a XXe pictorial century in fruitful dialogue with music.
1886 then. The young Muscovite law student, born in 1866 into an upper-middle-class family, had not yet suffered the two decisive shocks that would decide his artistic career ten years later: the discovery of the ‘Haystacks’. by Claude Monet, in a retrospective of French painting, and Wagner, from whom he heard Lohengrin at the Bolshoi Theater. In December 1896, Kandinsky left Russia to settle in Munich. The sound waves of the Wagnerian prelude open the exhibition with an immersion, drawings and models of sets and costumes by Lohengrin.
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