Browsing: Early Abstraction

Fragmented nude figures, vertical color fields, abstract vegetation, erased faces, and a white snake transform the classical bathing theme into a severe modernist composition.

Crinolined women, black-suited men, saturated color, and bold contour transform a garden gathering into a rhythmic field approaching abstraction.

Crinolined figures, pavilion architecture, fragmented brushwork, and saturated evening color transform a social gathering into a rhythmic field between figuration and abstraction.

A white oval, haloed figures, vivid diagonals, and mosaic-like color transform landscape and figure into a rhythmic field of sound, silence, and abstraction.

A small rider crosses a dark forest beneath a white opening, transforming mass, light, scale, and movement into a threshold between landscape and abstraction.

A blue-green rider, yellow mass, red-purple sky, and directional brushwork transform movement into a rhythmic field between representation, spiritual vibration, and abstraction.

Blue masses, black verticals, rainbow-like forms, and saturated colour fields transform conflict, reconciliation, rhythm, and spiritual tension into an emerging abstract language.

Two opposing swans meet at the centre of a divided surface, transforming black and white into a symbolic structure of tension, balance, and unity.

Kandinsky transforms the ideas of garden and love into an abstract rhythm of colour, line, open space, spiritual vibration, and visual movement.

Kandinsky dissolves the recognisable cow into colour, rhythm, and surface, placing the work at the threshold between figurative painting and abstraction.