Landscape with Factory Chimney (Landschaft mit Fabrikschornstein) is a oil on canvas painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1910, a crucial year that marks his move to purely abstract art.
The painting presents a rural scene that includes an industrial chimney rising above houses and hills. Although the subject is still recognisable (a landscape), it is treated in an increasingly expressionist way.
The colours are applied with quick, emotionally charged brushstrokes, typical of the Fauvism and ofExpressionism. The outlines of objects are fluid and imprecise. The factory chimney and the industrial structures, modern elements, are absorbed and almost dissolved into the natural landscape, reflecting Kandinsky's growing concern with the fusion of form and colour as spiritual expression.
This work is fundamental because it shows Kandinsky on the verge of complete abstraction. It is not yet a wholly abstract work like those he would produce in the same year (the Abstract Watercolour), but the subject is clearly subordinated to the expressive force of colour and mark.
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Print on handmade Amalfi paper Sheet size: 30 x 30 cm (11.8 x 11.8 in) With frame: 32 x 32 cm (12.6 x 12.6 in) Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade
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