1910
oil on canvas
98 õ 103
Kandinsky’s artistic career was closely linked with Germany, where he lived for a long time even before he left Russia for good. In the period following 1910, the artist lived in Munich and Murnau, where he worked a great deal and made etudes from nature. At this time he was close to the ideas of Expressionism, but not so much in the context of the drama of existence, which was the fundamental theme of Expressionism, as in his method of working with form.
Kandinsky believed that “a subject (something real: a man, tree, cloud) is, as it were, just a real foretaste, hint at the tones and aroma in a composition,” and therefore there is no need to accurately reproduce it. Painting acts on us by means of colour and form. The artist understood shape to be a distribution of planes and lines whose correlation expresses movement.
Colour assumes the main load not only in the field of emotional colouring of the work but also in the construction of a composition. And form either finds its own outlines of subjects or is freed of them as in the painting Lake.
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