Vasily Kandinsky Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944
Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)
1913
Wassily Kandinsky's 'Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)' (1913), painted on the eve of the First World War, includes among its abstract colour-fields two tilted cannon barrels and faint suggestions of falling buildings — a premonition of European catastrophe. One of the defining canvases of Kandinsky's pre-war move to abstraction. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago