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Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)

1913; Oil on canvas, 145 x 119.7cm (57 x 47 in); National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. 1978.48.1 (2725)

Kandinsky and abstraction

Neither Marc nor Macke were abstract painters.

Wassily Kandinsky - Paintings, Art & Facts - Biography

It was Kandinsky who found that the ``interior necessity'', which alone could inspire true art, was forcing him to leave behind the representational image. He was a Russian who had first trained as a lawyer. He was a brilliant and persuasive man. Then, when already in his thirties, he decided to go to Munich in 1897 to study art.

Wassily Kandinsky by Iris Huang - Haiku Deck

By the time Der Blaue Reiter was established, he was already ``abstracting'' from the image, using it as a creative springboard for his pioneering art. Seeing a painting of his own, lying on its side on the easel one evening, he had been struck by its beauty, a beauty beyond what he saw when he set it upright. It was the liberated color, the formal independence, that so entranced him.

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