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Pick out the two thin trunks near the center, then trace the yellow path up from the bottom edge and see how it cuts between the green and red blocks of land.
Kandinsky painted this landscape in 1912, the year the Blue Rider published its almanac. Houses, hills and fields have become broad blocks of red, blue, green and yellow, and only the two thin poplars and a path hold the scene together. In 1936 the Museum of Modern Art in New York borrowed it for its exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art.
Oil on canvas · 78.8 × 100.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · The Blue Rider
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Landscape with Two Poplars
- Artist
- Vasily Kandinsky
- Date
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 78.8 × 100.4 cm (31 × 39 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.