We round up the reviews for the Tate Modern’s exhibition that explores the work of a circle of friends who come together to help transform modern art.
The Guardian: ***** “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.”
The Telegraph: *** “Tate Modern refrains from hero-worshipping and uses too many curatorial buzzwords – but Kandinsky is the real reason to go.”
Time Out: *** “But Kandinsky and Münter come out of this really well. Him, hell bent on exploding painting into a million incredible interwoven strands of representation. Her, hell bent on simplifying it, reducing it down to its simplest, barest elements. Münter’s flat planes of minimal simplicity and Kandinsky’s hectic, chaotic complexity: these are the paths of modernity that would become most well-trodden, this is the radical potential of new art slowly starting to be realised.”
Evening Standard: ***** “This is a wonderful exhibition, marred only by the Tate’s imposition of its fatuous preoccupations with gender and colonialism on the work of an extraordinary movement which, like so much else, was crushed in the Great War.”
iNews: **** “At the heart of this early 20th century movement was the emotionally expressive capacity of paint – and despite its gimmicks, this exhibition is as colourful and energising as you’d expect.”
London Visitors: “Drawing on the world’s richest collection of expressionist masterpieces at the Lenbachhaus in Munich alongside rare loans from public and private collections, including some never seen before in the UK, the exhibition celebrate their radical experimentation with form, colour, sound and performance.”
To book tickets for the exhibition visit: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/expressionists