Kandinksy with music
Schoenberg with art
For more art, check out Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider edited by Esther da Costa Meyer and Fred Wasserman
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Yes, everyone is free to criticize me behind my back; there is plenty of room there. But if I come to hear of it, he is liable to my retaliation, and no quarter given.

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Schoenberg to Kandinsky (1923)
SCHOENBERG
KANDINSKY
Artists collaborate, think together about topics, and share ideas. Kandinsky, first a part of the Blue Rider, worked with the Bauhaus and invited Schoenberg to exhibit four of his paintings in 1911 or 12 in Munich. They communicated through letters, and Schoenberg declined working for the Bauhaus because he was a Jew and did not want to support the Bauhaus' anti-semitic tendencies. Values and belief drive the arts and collaboration.
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Hear what Kandinsky had to say about Schoenberg’s paintings:
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[A work of art is] a labyrinth where, at every point, every knowledgeable person is aware of the entrance and the exit without needing a golden thread to guide him.
