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(b) between January 1, 1951 and January 1, 1955, did not work during the Great Patriotic War and did not participate in it. This work was originally published anonymously or under a pseudonym before January 1, 1930 and the name of the author did not become known during 50 years after publication, counted from January 1 of the year following the ...
Wassily Kandinsky, 1910, Landscape with Factory Chimney, oil on canvas, 66.2 cm × 82 cm (26.1 in × 32.3 in), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Kandinsky's paintings from this period are large, expressive coloured masses evaluated independently from forms and lines; these serve no longer to delimit them, but overlap freely to form paintings of ...
Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasilij Vasiljevič Kandinskij, Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij, Vassily Kandinsky Description Russian-Soviet painter, university teacher, art theorist, teacher, lawyer and illustrator
The composition of the painting consists mainly of diagonals. Geometric shapes such as lines, circles, semicircles, triangles, squares, a checkerboard pattern and a black area in the center of the crossing figures, as well as a larger brownish-gray trapezoid, are reminiscent of the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich and his suprematist style, which Kandinsky understood and admired.
Composition VII is an abstract oil painting executed in 1913 by Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian-born painter. It is in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow. Art historians have concluded that the work is a combination of the themes of Resurrection, Judgment Day, the Flood and the Garden of Eden. [1]
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Kandinsky compared abstract painting to the process of musical composition, and called his major conceptual works "compositions", as opposed to his lesser "improvisations". Composition X is the last of the ten compositions he painted during his lifetime (he was 73 at the time).