Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction

Blue Mountain, 1908-09
It wasn't until the summer of 1908, when he discovered the little town of Murnau in the Bavarian Alps, that Kandinsky began to uncouple his pictures from any sources in the visible world. In Blue Mountain, which he began the following winter, he assigned the mountain an unearthly shade of indigo and turned the flanking trees into almost free-floating pools of pigment.

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