{"word_count": 229, "character_count": 1585}
Présentation de l'exposition par le musée:"In 1922 Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine,  France) accepted a teaching position at the Bauhaus, the state-sponsored  Weimar school of art and applied design founded in 1919 by architect  Walter Gropius. The school’s curriculum was based on the principle that  the crafts were equal to the traditional arts and was organized  according to a medieval-style guild system of training under the  tutelage of masters. Kandinsky conducted the Wall Painting Workshop and  Preliminary Course and taught at all three of the school’s sequential  locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin until 1933, when the Bauhaus was  closed due to pressure from the National Socialist (Nazi) government.Geometric shapes came to play a dominant role in Kandinsky’s  pictorial vocabulary at the Bauhaus; the artist, who was interested in  uncovering a universal aesthetic language, increased his use of  overlapping, flat planes and clearly delineated forms. This change was  due, in part, to his familiarity with the Suprematist work of Kazimir  Malevich and the art of the Constructivists. Kandinsky’s turn toward  geometric forms was also likely a testament to the influence of industry  and developments in technology.Drawn from the museum's permanent collection, this intimate  presentation features paintings and works on paper from a prolific  period of Kandinsky's career. The exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator."Plus d'infos: www.guggenheim.org