Paesaggio estivo case a murnau kandinsky biography

In Houses at Murnau or Summer Landscape, Wassily Kandinsky unleashes all the colors his eyes captured during his sojourn in Bavaria. The composition and the spreading of the colors remind the viewer of the painterly materiality of PaulGaugin and all Post-Impressionists.

Even more Mediterranean, the few colors are predominantly primary: yellow, blue, and red, with light touches of green. There are no nuances.

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The intense tonal differences guide Kandinsky. The chromatic breaks delimit the forms by contrasting them with the blue that Kandinsky uses for the shadows. The presence of the drawing lines is light. And where it does appear, it is marked by a black line and camouflaged by dense color strokes.

Thanks to its subject and the technique’s immediacy, this work by Kandinsky could be juxtaposed with other artworks and different forms.

If Houses at Murnau were a house-shaped mosaic

Wassily Kandinsky - Murnau HOVE