Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)
Vasily Kandinsky Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944
1913
On view — Gallery 392 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In his 1912 book Concerning the Spiritual in Art , Vasily Kandinsky made an analogy between music and painting as two means of abstraction, a radical mode of artmaking that freed color and line from their traditionally representational functions. Between 1910 and 1914 he produced “improvisations,”…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 111 × 111.3 cm (43 11/16 × 43 13/16 in.)
- Origin
- Germany