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Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II)

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Title:Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II)

Artist:Vasily Kandinsky (French (born Russia), Moscow 1866–1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine)

Date:1912

Medium:Oil on canvas

Dimensions:47 3/8 × 55 1/4 in. (120.3 × 140.3 cm)

Classification:Paintings

Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949

Object Number:49.70.1

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Kandinsky 1912

[Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich, until 1913; sold on March 8, 1913 for $500 to Stieglitz]; Alfred Stieglitz, New York (1913–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)

Berlin. Galerie Der Sturm. "Erste Ausstellung: Der Blaue Reiter, Franz Flaum, Oskar Kokoschka, Expressionisten," March 12–before April 12, 1912, no. 48 (as "Improvisation Nummer 27").

Berlin. Galerie Der Sturm. "Zweite Ausstellung," April 12–May 31, 1912, no. 61 (as "Improvisation Nummer 27").

Berlin. Galerie Der Sturm. "Kandinsky Kollektiv-Ausstellung 1902–1912," October 1912, not in catalogue [possibly this work].

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Summary of Wassily Kandinsky

One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky exploited the evocative interrelation between color and form to create an aesthetic experience that engaged the sight, sound, and emotions of the public. He believed that total abstraction offered the possibility for profound, transcendental expression and that copying from nature only interfered with this process. Highly inspired to create art that communicated a universal sense of spirituality, he innovated a pictorial language that only loosely related to the outside world, but expressed volumes about the artist's inner experience. His visual vocabulary developed through three phases, shifting from his early, representational canvases and their divine symbolism to his rapturous and operatic compositions, to his late, geometric and biomorphic flat planes of color. Kandinsky's art and ideas inspired many generations of artists, from his students at the Bauhaus to the Abstract Expressionists after World War II.

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Painting was, above all, deeply spiritual for Kandinsky. He
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian painter and art theorist (1866–1944)
"Kandinsky" redirects here. For other uses, see Kandinsky (disambiguation).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Wassilyevich and the family name is Kandinsky.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky^[a] (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914 after the outbreak of Wor