Why Kandinsky Was My First Favourite Artist
Discovering the exciting use of colours and geometric shapes
This masterpiece painting shown above is called Yellow-Red-Blue, painted by Wassily Kandinsky. It currently lives in the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, France.
What’s interesting about this painting is that it seems to cause confusion about how to hang it.
On at least four separate occasions I’ve seen it hung on a wall upside down. One time I saw it in a restaurant, another time was in a dentist’s waiting room, another was in a hotel, and the most recent time was in a shop that sold art prints — who probably should have known better.
A strange feeling comes over you when you notice something like that. It’s a mix of indignation and satisfaction. I thought about telling someone, but then I felt like I was nitpicking.
The feeling was exacerbated because of the deep fondness I have for the painter Kandinsky. He was my first artistic favourite, the first artist that had the effect of opening the lid of my imagination and bending it back on its hinges to its widest aperture.
