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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

“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

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

“The picture with a white border” The history of its creation is interesting. Here is what the author of the canvas writes about this: “For this picture I made many

This work is interesting because it is the artist’s first non-objective work and has no official title. Kandinsky was the first to create a work of art outside Western European

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

“Blue Sky” work is interesting in all respects. First of all, this is an ascetic solution of the color scale. There are no bright and blurry forms, there is a

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

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

“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

“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

The painting “In Gray” is one of the rare in the artist’s work. It was conceived as a composition with mountains, boats and figures of people. But in the final

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

“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

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

“Improvisation 28”. The main leitmotif of the work is a crusade against the traditional aesthetic values and the artist’s dream of a better, more spiritual future through the transforming power

The key characteristic of this composition, obviously, is the immobile black ocean, against which background colors and forms are isolated. Kandinsky always expressed great aversion to black, and it is

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

The picture “Composition IV” is conceived very bright with a lot of gentle tones, which often flow one into another, yellow too cold. The ratio of light-tender-cold to sharp-moving makes

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

This is the work of the late Kandinsky, referring to the period of “biomorphic abstraction”, which is also called “Parisian”. The famous collector Solomon Guggenheim bought it directly by the