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In his seminal 1912 book Concerning the Spiritual in Art , Wassily Kandinsky argued that art could transcend the imitation of the material world and, in his words, stimulate “the vibration of the soul” . As the richest and most musical form of artistic expression, Kandinsky pioneered abstraction, believing that the physical properties of a work of art can evoke emotion, and he created a revolutionary set of increasingly abstract paintings – titled Use “Fugue”, “Impression” and “Improvisation” etc. – I hope to bring painting closer to music creation.
In Kandinsky’s words, his paintings were “largely unconscious, spontaneous expressions of inner character, immaterial in nature”. Although Improvisation No. 30 (Cannon) at first appears to be an almost random variety of brilliant colors, shapes and lines, the artist also includes sloping buildings, crowds and wheeled, smoking cannon. Kandinsky explained in a letter to the Chicago attorney Arthur Jerome Eddy, who bought the painting, that “the cannons appearing in the picture may be due to the ongoing war conversations throughout the year.” Ultimately, Kandinsky explained Skye no longer refers to the material world in his work, instead devoting himself entirely to pure abstraction.
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111 × 111.3 cm
abstract art
Art Institute of Chicago
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