Color studies with information on painting technique (1913)
Wassily Kandinsky1913 · Landscape · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1944)
Specifications
- Year
- 1913
- Nationality / school
- Russian
- Lifespan
- 1866–1944
About the artwork
Dated 1913, "Color studies with information on painting technique" is an artwork by Wassily Kandinsky. About the period around 1913: Dada and Surrealism followed the First World War, the Bauhaus school was founded in 1919, and Art Deco became the fashionable decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s. The first decades of the twentieth century were a period of rapid experiment, with Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and the first abstract painting appearing within a few years of each other. The catalogue places it in Abstract. The format is landscape. Abstract in brief: Movements of later decades, including Abstract Expressionism and geometric abstraction, carried non-representational ideas into new scales and materials. Abstract art moves away from depicting recognisable objects and relies on colour, line, shape, and surface instead.
"Color studies with information on painting technique" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A landscape format suits wide, low wall spaces such as the stretch above a bed, mantel, or sideboard. Abstract compositions work through rhythm, colour, and form, which makes them especially effective in modern interiors and in spaces that need a strong visual accent without a literal narrative. Browsing works by the same artist, or from the same period, is a good way to compare styles before choosing what suits your space.
About the artist
Russian, 1866–1944
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