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Maker(s):Kandinsky, Wassily
Culture:Russian (1866 - 1944)
Title:Autumn Impression
Date Made:1908
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on paperboard
Place Made:Germany; Murnau
Measurements:board: 13 x 17 1/2 in.; 33.02 x 44.45 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed in red paint at lower right: KANDINSKY
Accession Number:  SC 1996.24.1
Credit Line:Bequest of Mrs. Robert S. Tangeman (E. Clementine Miller, class of 1927)
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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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.”

Subjects:
Mountains; Buildings; Landscapes; Trees; Paperboard

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