Wassily Kandinsky / Study for Improvisation V / 1910

Wassily Kandinsky
Study for Improvisation V
1910
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Creator Name: Kandinsky, Wassily
Creator Nationality: European; Eastern European; Russian
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1866 - 1944
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Wassily Kandinsky
Title: Study for Improvisation V
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1910
Creation End Date: 1910
Creation Date: 1910
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: oil on board
Materials and Techniques: oil on cardboard pulp
Dimensions: H.27-5/8 x W.27-1/2 in.
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 67.34.2
Credit Line: Gift of Bruce B. Dayton
Copyright: ? Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Rights: http://www.arsny.com
Context:

This landscape evokes Biblical stories of the Apocalypse, which foretold Christ's second coming. In the foreground, a woman in blue kneels before a tall figure with streaming golden hair, possibly Christ, while in the background two horsemen of the Apocalypse vault a fence.

As a pioneer of abstract painting, Wassily Kandinsky thought art could make inner truths visible. An "improvisation," he said, was "a largely unconscious, spontaneous expression of inner character," or "non-material (i.e., spiritual) nature." Kandinsky wanted painting to function like music, using colors and forms like melodies and rhythms-abstractly-to summon emotion.

AMICA ID: MIA_.67.34.2
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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