For more biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 and 2. This is part 3 of a 4-part post on the works of Wassily Kandinsky. The works are shown in chronological order:
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| 1915-16 Untitled watercolour & ink 47 x 63.5 cm |
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| 1916 Drawing for Etching II pen & ink 24.8 x 19 cm |
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| 1916 Moscow I oil on canvas |
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| 1917 Blue Crest |
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| 1917 Dusk |
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| 1917 Improvisation 209 |
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| 1917 Overcast oil on canvas 105 x 134 cm |
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| 1919 In Grey oil on canvas |
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| 1919 White Oval oil on canvas 80 x 93 cm |
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| 1920 Red Oval oil on canvas 71.5 x 71.5 cm |
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| 1920 White Line oil on canvas |
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| 1921 Blue Segment |
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| 1921 Red Spot II oil on canvas 131 x 181 cm |
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| 1921 Study for "Circles on Black" watercolour & ink on paper 25.5 x 25.5 cm |
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| 1922 Black Grid |
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| 1922 Small Worlds II lithograph |
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| 1922 White Cross oil on canvas 100.5 x 110.6 cm |
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| 1923 Black and Violet |
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| 1923 Composition VIII oil on canvas |
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| 1923 Green Composition |
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| 1923 In the Black Square oil on canvas 97.5 x 93.3 cm |
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| 1923 Mild Tension |
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| 1923 On White II oil on canvas 105 x 98 cm |
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| 1923 Sin Titulo |
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| 1923 Transverse Line oil on canvas |
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| 1923 Violet lithograph 29.1 x 19.1 cm |
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| 1924 Black Relationship watercolour & ink on paper 36.8 x 36.2 cm |
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| 1924 Contrasting Sounds oil on cardboard 70 x 49.5 cm |
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| 1924 Heavy Red oil on cardboard 58.7 x 48.7 cm © ProLitteris, Zürich |
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| 1924 Sharp Quiet Pink oil on cardboard 63.6 x 48.2 cm |
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| 1925 Small Dream In Red oil on cardboard 35.5 x 41.2 cm |
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| 1925 Swinging oil on board 70.5 x 50.2 cm © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002 |
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| 1925 Yellow-Red-Blue oil on canvas |
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| 1926 Development |
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| 1926 Several Circles oil on canvas 140 x 140 cm |
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| 1927 Dark Freshness |
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| 1927 Heavy Circles |
all of these pieces are very interesting. Maybe I'm imagining things, but it looks as if as he went through the years he almost conformed to the idea of abstract instead of simply letting his hand guide him on the canvas.
ReplyDeleteCompare it to free form jazz and jazz played to sound like jazz.
If you look at his earlier pieces they are much more fluent, there are no breaks in the original black lines of the first draft. As you go on, there are more sharp edges, the colors are not mixed, and it simply looks like "just another abstract".
It's always sad when you see an artist conform to expectations.