Tate Modern’s survey of Kandinsky, Münter and the rest of the avant garde Blue Rider group is an exhilarating riot of colour – but also abounds with anxieties about the coming conflicts of the 20th century
Tate Modern’s survey of Kandinsky, Münter and the rest of the avant garde Blue Rider group is an exhilarating riot of colour – but also abounds with anxieties about the coming conflicts of the 20th century
Marc, one of the wildest-eyed geniuses of this exhibition, would die in the battle of Verdun in 1916, aged 36. You will be convinced it was the biggest artistic loss of the Great War. His empathy for the animal world is captivating. In the Rain shows busy Munich with a dog as its most sympathetic protagonist, a perplexed soul at the edge of the human cacophony.
At times it comes across like the Bloomsbury Group with better beer. Münter is the least “expressionist” artist here, if expressionism means being possessed by an inner tiger. Her paintings ground the social world of the Blue Rider, offering relaxed glimpses of Bavarian Bohemia. In her affectionate scene of Kandinsky and Erma Bossi at the Table, her lover sits in shorts and blue glasses holding forth over the coffee cups in a multicoloured room.
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