Sunday, October 23, 2011

Kandinsky's Soft Yellow




Sender: Otoko

Wassily Kandinsky
Soft Yellow, 1927
watercolour, gouache and ink on card paper
Musée National d'Art Moderne
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1896), a Russian-born artist, is one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. Born in Moscow, he studied law but in the 1890s gave up his career and went to Munich to study art. His artwork has a distinct geometric style and consists of etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs.

Otoko sent this card for the Alphabet RR, 'X' is for 'Xanthic' which means tending towards a yellow colour. Another new word for me! :)

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