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Wassily Kandinsky
In the 1920s, Wassily Kandinsky moved from Russia to Germany to join the Bauhaus in Weimar/Dessau. At that time, the Bauhaus was the centre of innovation for research and teaching of art, but also architecture and design. It was founded by Walter Groupius and employed artists like Mies van der Rohe, Paul Klee and others. Because of its radical approaches to teaching and research it was closed by the Nazis in 1933 and only re-opened as part of Bauhaus University in Weimar after the German reunification in 1993. Kandinsky was a member of the movement called Blauer Reiter and the first artist to abandon the use of concrete representations in his drawings and paintings and instead focus on the use abstraction. I chose Inneres Kochen as the cover illustration for my book when I saw it in the 1998 Kandinsky exhibition of the Royal Academy, of which I am a Friend.The painting appealed to me because of its use of abstraction. I could immediately see different distributed objects and the communication middleware they use to communicate. |