Art dances with architecture: Kandinsky at the Guggenheim
The current show at the Guggenheim Museum reminds us once again that the works of the avant garde painter Wassily Kandinsky have a special home there.
For one thing, the Guggenheim owns more Kandinskys than any other major modernist painter. For another, his work seems to carry on an intimate dialogue with the spiral rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright’s unique building. It’s possible that Wright designed this circling ramp with Kandinsky’s swirling abstractions in mind.
Kandinsky had a vision that saw art, music, shape, sound, and color as part of a continuum, and the setting of this show at the Guggenheim makes that vision come to life. You can see a slide show with commentary at the New York Times website.
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