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Description:
landscape; outdoor; vegetation

Label Text:
This small alpine landscape was painted by Kandinsky when he was staying in Murnau, near Munich, with his companion, the artist Gabriele Münter. Its vivid color palette reflects the influence of Henri Matisse and the Fauve artists, who painted with brilliant, non-representational colors. Its stained-glass appearance may owe something to Münter’s reverse-glass paintings (a painting on glass meant to be viewed in reverse from the opposite side of the pane).

For Kandinsky, color had spiritual meaning as well as an affinity with music. As he wrote: “Color directly influences the soul, color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the piano with many strings.”

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