Home ⇒ 🎨Kandinsky Basil ⇒ Cossacks by Vasily Kandinsky


Cossacks by Vasily Kandinsky

Cossacks by Vasily Kandinsky

Many connoisseurs of painting agree that the paintings of Vasily Kandinsky are full of life. Bright spots, curved lines that resemble hieroglyphs – all these mysterious figures creep in, penetrate each other, creating new shapes and images, surprisingly imprinted in the memory of the viewer.

Painting by Vasily Kandinsky “Cossacks” is considered one of the artist’s best works in an abstract style. The outlines of the hills, the horizon line, the silhouettes of the Cossacks riding on horseback are combined with the overall dynamics of the canvas, its separate forms, lines, spots. Smear of the artist is characterized by a special freedom, ease. All this helps the composition to come alive in the mind of the viewer, it is easy and in its own way realistic. However, the picture is very strict, but at the same time, it is very simple, it is devoid of haste, fuss.

Kandinsky always subtly felt a special symbolism of color. All his works contain color symbols: white color symbolizes rebirth, a new beginning; black is death, the extinction of life; red – courage and sacrifice. Not only colors, but also lines become special symbols in his works: the horizontal represents the passive female principle, the vertical, on the contrary, is very active and courageous.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

Related Paintings:

  1. Improvisation 7 by Vasily Kandinsky Having abandoned figurative, objective painting, Vasily Kandinsky sought new forms for his new art. These innovative forms were compositions and improvisations, which, not having a clearly expressed plot program, carried...

  2. Dominant curve by Vasily Kandinsky Vasily Kandinsky left Germany in 1933, when the Nazis came to power. The ideologists of fascism sharply condemned the new trends in painting, the “degenerate art” was persecuted, the pictures...

  3. Several circles by Vasily Kandinsky In the early 20-ies, after returning from Russia to Germany, Kandinsky’s works acquire characteristic geometricity, on the canvas becomes more space, the element gives way to order. Fascinated by the...

  4. Composition VI by Vasily Kandinsky Composition VI expresses the possibility of being caused by a major catastrophe. In this work, the destruction of the material world is determined by the forms and phenomena disintegrating before...

  5. Untitled by Vasily Kandinsky This dynamic watercolor was written by Kandinsky in the mid-1920s, when his art, both theoretically and in practice, is experiencing a powerful upsurge. Returning to Germany from Moscow in June...

  6. Night by Vasily Kandinsky Most of the surviving works of the Kandinsky period of 1900-1908 are in the Impressionist style. They are largely secondary and do not represent a special interest. This applies to...

  7. Several Circles by Vasily Kandinsky Painting “A few laps,” written in 1926. Materials for writing works were the oil and canvas. Dimensions 140×140 cm canvas up. At the moment the picture is in New York,...

  8. In-depth impulse by Vasily Kandinsky So often found in the works of Kandinsky circles, here fill the whole space of the canvas like celestial bodies. Indeed, according to Jelena Hahl Koch, a well-known researcher of...

  9. Red Square by Vasily Kandinsky The painting “Red Square” is an urban landscape, where Kandinsky creates the image of the center of Moscow, one of his favorite cities. The artist uses a futuristic way of...

  10. Black lines by Vasily Kandinsky The painting “Black Lines” is a lyrical work. Delicate pastel colors form a background where the colors shimmer, bright colorful spots do not look frozen and amorphous, they stopped for...

  11. Composition VII by Vasily Kandinsky Kandinsky in this period worked on a new pictorial formula consisting of lines, dots and combined geometric figures representing his visual and intellectual research. Lyrical abstraction shifted towards a more...

  12. Binz on Rugen by Vasily Kandinsky “Binz on Rugen” is a rare early work of the Kandinsky student period, embodying his experiments with technique and a thoughtful study of color, which will manifest itself in full...

  13. Circles in the circle by Vasily Kandinsky The painting “Circles in a circle” shows a special style of Kandinsky early 1920s, when he began teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He moved away from the spontaneous style...

  14. Composition VIII by Vasily Kandinsky “Composition VIII” was created in the so-called “cold period”, the canvases of which were marked by rigor, scientific logic and contained a rational beginning. In this painting the artist went...

  15. Moscow II by Vasily Kandinsky “Moscow II”, written by Kandinsky in 1916 – one of the most beautiful paintings of the “Russian period”, located in private collections. The turbulent events that brought the artist back...

  16. Composition IX by Vasily Kandinsky “Composition IX” stands out among the other abstract compositions of the artist and some critics tend to classify it as surrealistic canvases. However, Kandinsky denied any influence of surrealism on...

  17. Improvisation No. 29 (The Swan) by Vasily Kandinsky Having dealt with symbolism and Fauvism, in 1908-1909 Kandinsky begins to free himself from the influences of any artistic trends and gropes his own way. For him, this process primarily...

  18. White Oval by Vasily Kandinsky The picture shows a white oval with an irregular configuration on a black marble background. Background performs an equally important active role, as in realistic portraits. He brightens and simultaneously...

  19. Point and line on the plane by Vasily Kandinsky External – internal. Any phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two methods are not arbitrary, but are connected with the phenomena themselves – they proceed from the nature...

  20. Cosaques – Vasily Kandinsky De nombreux connaisseurs de la peinture s’accordent à dire que les peintures de Vasily Kandinsky sont pleines de vie. Taches lumineuses, lignes courbes ressemblant à des hiéroglyphes – toutes ces...