Tag: Symbolism
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Tracing the Path to a Visual Language of the Soul Before Wassily Kandinsky stripped away the figure, before the symphonies of line and color, there was a rider — mid-gallop, merging with the landscape. Painted in 1909, Picture with a Riding Archer and Landscape is not yet abstract, but abstraction is already whispering through its…
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Imagine owning a window into the soul of Wassily Kandinsky This is the allure of “With Fruits,” a Hinterglasmalerei masterpiece. But consider this: painted in 1918, while Kandinsky resided in revolutionary Russia, it becomes more than just a painting. It’s a coded message, a dreamscape painted in vibrant hues against a backdrop of societal upheaval. It’s a…