Wassily Kandinsky
This work is one of several compositions with ovals that Kandinsky painted in the late 1910s. Like the others, it is completely abstract, though one can also read associations with a certain objective reality. The small cupolas of the church and the fields, outlined by a black oval and seen from above, link this musical expression of the state of the artist’s soul to the real pictures of life that evoke such feelings and emotions.
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of Abstract art. He had some interesting artistic ideas. For example, he expressed the communion between artist and viewer as being available to both the senses and the mind (synesthesia). Hearing tones and chords as he painted, Kandinsky theorized that (for example), yellow is the color of middle C on a brassy trumpet; black is the color of closure, and the end of things; and that combinations of colors produce vibrational frequencies, akin to chords played on a piano. He also developed a theory of geometric figures and their relationships—claiming, for example, that the circle is the most peaceful shape and represents the human soul.
We present today's painting thanks to the State Russian Museum.
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