anatole jakovsky (1907/1909 ? – 1983) - Bibliothèque Kandinsky

La trajectoire d’un critique d’art au XXe siècle.
tentative efforts of Delacroix to fix the reflection of a reflection, this art of fingering –
Chopin’s advice to cultivate a free and delicate touch, to let the hand fall onto the clavier
freely, lightly, to arrive at last at an indecisive melody like an airy apparition – this
romanticism of the nineteenth century which extends itself as far as the ultimate desire of the
surrealists, to seize the shadow of a shade – symbolic of a life that is amazed at itself. Old
Paris !
Each civilisation, each culture, has its favoured cultural climate, its ideal atmosphere.
Rome for the sixteenth century, Versailles for the eighteenth, Paris for the beginning of the
twentieth. Kandinsky lives there and his art becomes more highly universalized. His latest
painting offers us an unexpected image of Paris – one of the most beautiful effigies of his
aerial purpose.
ANATOLE JAKOVSKI
Works by Kandinsky are to be found in museums and private collections in Germany,
England, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Russia,
Sweden, Switzerland and the U.S.A.
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