Wassily Kandinsky began to experiment with abstracting from landscape and with painting expressive narrative pictures that were symbolic, though not taken from real scenes. This painting is one of his ‘improvisations’, implying that it is constructed rather than painted from observation, yet there is clearly a landscape within the balanced, rhythm of Fauve-like colours.
It is around this time that Kandinsky and Franz Marc formulated the ideas that were to define Der Blaue Reiter, a group of artists who shared artistic vision and exhibited together, based around an occasional journal also titled Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider).
You can find an image of this painting amongst this gallery of Kandinsky's Improvisations
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