1910, Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation XIV -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: Two knights confront each other in a stylised forest announcing the shift to abstraction.
In the paintings here entitled "Improvisations", Wassily Kandinsky summons up images from his imagination, as in this scene which he prepared in a drawing that belongs to the Museum, in which we can make out two knights and a tree. The references to nature are little more than allusions here, pretexts for the harmony of shapes and colours. The masses edged in black show the artist's interest for Bavarian painting on glass.
1910, Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation XIV -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: Two knights confront each other in a stylised forest announcing the shift to abstraction.
In the paintings here entitled "Improvisations", Wassily Kandinsky summons up images from his imagination, as in this scene which he prepared in a drawing that belongs to the Museum, in which we can make out two knights and a tree. The references to nature are little more than allusions here, pretexts for the harmony of shapes and colours. The masses edged in black show the artist's interest for Bavarian painting on glass.