Blue (1922) by Wassily Kandinsky

Blue

1922

Colour lithograph

8.3 × 5.9" (21.0 × 14.9 cm)

Pasadena, California, Norton Simon Museum

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4 comments

03 June 2022

Wyatt Burns: I'm fairly sure it's a boat on the sea, with a giant squid about to attack.(Boat=black, Sea=blue, squid=red) I don't think it has meaning, though, most of his paintings don't.

11 September 2017

Gili: Does anybody know the meaning of this artpiece? beckground, messege or something?

22 September 2015

John Smith from California: What is the red thing above the boat? To me it looks like a giant squid, but it could easily be a sail or just an abstract triangle.

11 November 2014

lucy from np196yn: lithograph means a stone painting

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