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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art.
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The sketch for the composition "Red and Black "refers to the Moscow period of Wassily Kandinsky's work: the master stayed in Russia from December 14 to December 21. Kandinsky returned to his homeland from Munich, where he was caught by the First World War. By this time, he was already actively using his own system in his work, based on three types of abstract paintings - "impression", "improvisation", "composition". A variety of forms, similar to graphic signs-symbols, are harmoniously combined within the entire composition of 1915: these are yellow, blue, red spots, soft and often contoured colored "clouds", "lightning bolts" of different colors, zigzag lines. A real "chorus of colors bursting into the soul from nature", as defined by the artist himself.
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The history of the existence of the sketch for the composition "Red and Black " is interesting. In 1996, during the preparation of the exhibition "Graphics of the 1920s-1930s from the Museum Collection" at the Vasnetsov Kirov Regional Art Museum, Anna Shakina, examining Vasily Chekrygin's drawing "Scene in the Field", discovered that it was glued to a thicker sheet of paper. After the turnover was opened, a signature watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky was found. In this form, the work of Chekrygin came from the Yaransk Museum of Local Lore to the Kirov Art Museum in 1965. Subsequently, it turned out that this was a sketch of the famous painting by Kandinsky “Composition. Red with Black" of 1920, which is now kept in the collection of the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan in Tashkent.
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