Pointillé by Wassily Kandinsky, 1935 Size:20x28in (50x70cm) reflecting 19th-century taxonomic practices

reflecting 19th-century taxonomic practices

villages and cities are already visible in this map of Italy

albeit as it was long before any contemporary developments

it’s a keepsake designed to be enjoyed for decades

Pointillé by Wassily Kandinsky, 1935 Size:20x28in (50x70cm) reflecting 19th-century taxonomic practicesPointill (1935) by Wassily Kandinsky announces the lyrical, visionary maturity of one of modern arts great pioneers. Born in 1866, the Russian born painter helped define abstraction through color, rhythm, and nonrepresentational form. By the mid 1930s, Kandinskys canvases often read like musical scorescomposed yet improvisationalbalancing geometric scaffolds with playful, biomorphic shapes. Painted during his later period, Pointill distills that