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Sounds: Boat Trip

1911

Vassily Kandinsky

(Russian, 1866–1944)
Culture
Russia, 20th century
Medium
color woodcut
Support
Laid paper
Measurements
Sheet: 28 x 27.9 cm (11 x 11 in.); Image: 22 x 22.1 cm (8 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1999.176
Catalogue raisonné
Roethel 115
State
only
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Description

For Kandinsky, music functioned perfectly as an abstract art: it does not require words or narrative to elicit a direct and powerful emotional response from the listener. For him, representational art--art that focused on depicting recognizable subjects such as figures, landscapes, still lifes-squandered the possibility of speaking directly to the viewer’s soul. Kandinsky wanted visual art to achieve the emotional impact of music through abstraction rather than representation. He believed that the only way for art to elicit an emotional response was to speak to the unconscious, bypassing logic and other forms of reasoning.

Sounds: Boat Trip

1911

Vassily Kandinsky

(Russian, 1866–1944)
Russia, 20th century

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