Meditation on a gold background (1936)
Alexej von Jawlensky1936 · Portrait · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1941)
Specifications
- Year
- 1936
- Nationality / school
- Russian
- Lifespan
- 1864–1941
About the artwork
This page presents "Meditation on a gold background" (1936), created by Alexej von Jawlensky. About the period around 1936: Posters, magazines, and illustrated books were major ways for the public to meet new art and design. 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. Abstract, a short history: Abstract art moves away from depicting recognisable objects and relies on colour, line, shape, and surface instead. It emerged in the early twentieth century, when several artists in Europe and Russia developed non-representational painting during the 1910s. The catalogue places it in Abstract. The format is portrait.
"Meditation on a gold background" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A portrait format suits narrow wall spaces, hallways, and the area beside a door or window. 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, 1864–1941
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