Composition VI
Composition VI | |
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Artist | Wassily Kandinsky |
Year | 1913 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 195 cm × 300 cm (77 in × 120 in) |
Location | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
Composition VI is a 1913 oil painting on canvas by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, now in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg.
The result of 24 studies, it took the painter eight months to complete the large painting. He wanted to depict a flood, a baptism and the theme of destruction and rebirth. His assistant, Gabriele Münter - with whom he had a professional and personal relationship between 1902 and 1916[1] - advised him to break free from the initial outline and think about the German word 'Überflut' (flood) and the acoustic sensations it suggested to him. Kandinsky finished the painting within three days of that suggestion, intoning the word 'uberflut' for those whole three days.[2][3]
Exposition
Composition VI was the artist's main entry for the Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon (First German Autumn Salon), organized in 1913 in Berlin by Herwarth Walden, alongside painters such as August Macke and Franz Marc.[4]
See also
- List of paintings by Wassily Kandinsky
- 1913 in art
References
- ^ Gaze, Delia (1997). Dictionary of women artists. Volume 2. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
- ^ "Composition VI, 1913 - Wassily Kandinsky". Wikiart.org. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ (in Portuguese) Vários (1995). Grandes Pintores do Século XX. Mondrian 1872-1944. 3. Madrid: Globus Comunicación. ISBN 84-8223-005-0
- ^ (in Portuguese) Düchting, Hajo (2005). Wassily Kandinsky - A Revolução da Pintura. Alemanha: Paisagem. 96 páginas. ISBN 3-8228-4373-3
External links
- Media related to Composition VI - Wassily Kandinsky at Wikimedia Commons
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- The Blue Rider (1903)
- Das Bunte Leben (1907)
- Landscape with Red Spots (1913)
- Composition VI (1913)
- Composition VII (1913)
- Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) (1911–1913)
- Ein Zentrum (A Centre) (1922)
- Auf Weiss II (Sur blanc II) (1923)
- Three Elements (1925)
- Upward (1929)
- Composition X (1939)
- The Yellow Sound (1912)
- Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky (grandson)
- Gabriele Münter (partner)
- Neue Künstlervereinigung München
- Der Blaue Reiter
- Institute of Artistic Culture
- Bibliothèque Kandinsky
- Kandinsky Prize
- Wassily Chair
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