Small Worlds VI from Small Worlds (Kleine Welten)
Artist: Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944)
Publisher: Propyläen Verlag, [Berlin]
Printer: Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar
Date: 1922-1923
Dimensions:
10 3/4 x 9 3/16 in.
Medium: Woodcut
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Winthrop H. Perry Fund
Object number: 1955.1
Label Text:Small Worlds VI, a wood cut, and Small Worlds VII, a color lithograph, are from a portfolio of 12 small worlds each represented by a specific printmaking technique. As Kandinsky explained in the portfolio’s introduction, he used drypoint to represent passion and haste, etching to show precision, woodcut to show the interplay of background and foreground, and lithography to resemble painting. Kandinsky placed each shape, line, and color to interact among themselves, generating through these abstract means tension, emotion, and meaning. He added color, shading, and texture to bring the shapes to the surface or to push them to the background. Each print represents an autonomous microcosm, a reflection of Kandinsky’s view of the cosmos.
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