Painting with Troika

January 18, 1911

Vasily Kandinsky was a founding member of Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), a loose alliance of artists based in Munich. Often working in a common palette and using expressive brushwork, they shared a belief in the symbolic and spiritual importance of forms and colors, including their effect on emotions and memories. Blaue Reiter also promoted a intuitive approach to painting, looking to non-Western, European medieval, and folk art for inspiration.

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Artist

Vasily Kandinsky Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944

Date

January 18, 1911

Medium

Oil on cardboard; in artist's painted frame

Dimensions

69.7 × 97.3 cm (27 3/8 × 38 5/16 in.)

Origin

Germany

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection