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Red Square by Vasily Kandinsky

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 conveying the movement of figures, making the main accent on the middle of the square, showing her main monuments.

“Moscow is a duality, complexity and a high level of mobility, a clash and confusion of individual elements of appearance… I believe that this is internal and external, so that Moscow is the starting point of my hunger. Moscow is my pictorial tuning fork,” wrote Kandinsky

The artist said that he especially loved the time when the sun sets and “melts all Moscow up to one spot, which, like a mad tuba, starts all hearts and all souls vibrates.” This hour of sunset is “the final chord of the symphony, which takes all colors to the zenith of life, which, like a fortissimo of a large orchestra, is simultaneously forced and allowed to Moscow to thunder.”

The picture is made with bright color spots and it strengthens the expression, everything is in motion, everything is full of sunset light, a premonition of change.

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