Kandinsky’s Universe: A journey through geometrical abstraction at Berlin's Museum Barberini

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Museum Barberini in Berlin is presenting 'Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometrical Abstraction in the 20th Century', a major exhibition celebrating the visionary artist’s groundbreaking work.

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00:00The exhibition starts in the 1910s and goes all the way to the 1970s, so it's a big arc

00:24that gets drawn here with Kandinsky's theories about colors and forms and their emotional

00:31resonance in people as the main subject of the exhibition.

00:44I think kids love Kandinsky.

00:45I think Kandinsky also really loved children's drawings and this kind of playfulness in his

00:52you always see, which is funny because if you look at pictures of him, he always looks

00:55like such a stern, serious man in his suit, but then his pictures have so much color and

00:59so much life and so much playfulness.

01:29I think he's a great artist.

01:30He's a great artist.

01:31He's a great artist.

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