1912, Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In his influential treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky theorized a new form of artistic expression that would reject the materialist world in favor of emotional and spiritual ideals, using abstract forms and color symbolism to evoke an inner, preconscious world. Pioneering abstraction, which he regarded as the richest, most musical form of artistic expression, Kandinsky produced a revolutionary group of increasingly abstract works with titles such as Fugue, Impression, and Improvisation, hoping to bring painting closer to making music. Composed of dark lines and abstract colorful masses, Improvisation 27 depicts three iterations of an embracing couple surrounded by serpentine forms. Kandinsky hints at the painting's possible subject in the subtitle, Garden of Love II, a likely reference to biblical Eden.
1912, Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In his influential treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky theorized a new form of artistic expression that would reject the materialist world in favor of emotional and spiritual ideals, using abstract forms and color symbolism to evoke an inner, preconscious world. Pioneering abstraction, which he regarded as the richest, most musical form of artistic expression, Kandinsky produced a revolutionary group of increasingly abstract works with titles such as Fugue, Impression, and Improvisation, hoping to bring painting closer to making music. Composed of dark lines and abstract colorful masses, Improvisation 27 depicts three iterations of an embracing couple surrounded by serpentine forms. Kandinsky hints at the painting's possible subject in the subtitle, Garden of Love II, a likely reference to biblical Eden.