Blue Mountain

painting by Wassily Kandinsky

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Blue Mountain is a 1908 painting by Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian-born artist renowned as a pioneer of abstract art.12

Kandinsky's artistic journey involved evolving from representational styles influenced by Impressionism and Fauvism to a completely abstract approach. Blue Mountain is considered a significant step in this evolution, showcasing schematic forms and non-naturalistic colors that create a dreamlike landscape, moving away from depicting recognizable objects.2

Kandinsky believed colors, lines, and shapes could form a visual language to express ideas and emotions, much like music. This painting is part of his exploration into this abstract visual language.2

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Wassily Kandinsky
Munich period
In Blue Mountain (1908–09) the evolution toward nonrepresentation is already clearly underway; the forms are schematic, the colours nonnaturalistic, and the general effect that of a dream landscape. In Landscape with Tower (1909) similar tendencies are evident, together with the beginning of what might be called…
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In Blue Mountain (1908–09) the evolution toward nonrepresentation is already clearly underway; the forms are schematic, the colours nonnaturalistic, and the general effect that of a dream landscape. In Landscape with Tower (1909) similar tendencies are evident, together with the beginning of what might be called…
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