Gewärmtes Kühl (Warmed Cool) (1924)

Wassily Kandinsky is the artist behind "Gewärmtes Kühl (Warmed Cool)", dated 1924. Historical background, 1924: Posters, magazines, and illustrated books were major ways for the public to meet new art and design. 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 portrait. Background on Abstract: Abstract art moves away from depicting recognisable objects and relies on colour, line, shape, and surface instead. Movements of later decades, including Abstract Expressionism and geometric abstraction, carried non-representational ideas into new scales and materials.

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Russian, 1866–1944

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