Fully Lined Cushion Cover
 
  • composition : 100% cotton
  • lined with beige cotton back
  • closes with zipper
  • jacquard woven and finished in Belgium
  • insert not included
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    Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, tr. Vasíliy Vasílʹevich Kandínskiy) (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.

    In this work Kandinsky compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid. The point of the pyramid is those few, great artists. It is a spiritual pyramid, advancing and ascending slowly even if it sometimes appear immobile.  During decadent periods, the soul sinks to the bottom of the pyramid, humanity searches only for external success, ignoring spiritual forces. Red is a warm colour, lively and agitated, it is forceful, a movement in itself.

    Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

    In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then his spiritual outlook was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society, and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

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    We also offer many other tapestry panels finished as cushion covers which make perfect gifts, and are ideal for collecting, childrens nurseries, etc. such as our 14"x14" cushion cover ranges of Beatrix Potter and Flower Fairies designs by M C Barker which are all hand woven, made up and finished in Belgium to the same high standards as all of our tapestries.   If you are looking for that special gift or present either to celebrate the arrival of a newborn or to enhance any baby or childs bedroom or nursery or your home then you are sure to find a suitable design from our Beatrix Potter, Flower Fairies, Aristodogs, or Aristocats ranges which will truly make a unique and memorable gift for anyone.

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