Blue ("Lithographie Blau")
Artist
Wassily Kandinsky
(Russian, 1866 - 1944)
Date1922
MediumColor lithograph on paper
DimensionsOverall: 12 11/16 x 10 7/8in. (32.2 x 27.6cm)
Image: 8 1/2 x 5 7/8in. (21.6 x 14.9cm)
Image: 8 1/2 x 5 7/8in. (21.6 x 14.9cm)
ClassificationsPRINTS
Credit LineGift of Edward W. Root
Terms
Object number53.136
DescriptionBlauOn View
Not on viewCollections
Copyright© Wassily Kandinsky Estate / Licensing by ARS, New York, NY
Label TextKandinsky published this lithograph shortly after he began teaching at the famous design school in Weimar, Germany commonly known as the Bauhaus. Speaking about another series of lithographs he also published in 1922, Kandinsky wrote that he favored this medium because the prints closely approximate a painting. Kandinsky believed that abstract images were not arbitrary arrangements of colors and shapes but, instead, depict a higher, spiritual reality derived from an artist's inner vision.
PDS
May 2012
