Page: Moonlight night
Artist: Wassily Kandinsky
Completion Date: 1907
Place of Creation: Munich / Monaco, Germany
Style: Expressionism
Genre: landscape
Technique: linocut
Gallery: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Tags: twilight-and-night, fictional-characters, beasts-and-dragons, mountains
Page: Blue rider
Artist: Wassily Kandinsky
Completion Date: 1903
Place of Creation: Munich / Monaco, Germany
Style: Expressionism
Genre: landscape
Technique: oil
Material: cardboard
Dimensions: 55 x 65 cm
Gallery: Private collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Tags: horsemen, forests-and-trees
The Blue Rider is perhaps Kandinsky’s most important painting from the early 1900’s, before he had fully developed his abstract style of music as sound. The painting illustrates a rider cloaked in blue, speeding through a greenish meadow. The painting’s intentional abstractness had led many art theorists to project their own representations onto the figure, some seeing a child in the arms of the blue rider. Allowing viewers to participate in the representations of the art was a technique that Kandinsky would use to great fruition in his many later works, which became more and more abstract as his career wore on.