In Murnau, a small picturesque town near Munich, Kandinsky's art began to change. His bold new approach to the simplicity of forms and the expressiveness of color was clearly influenced by the Fauvists, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and all the new things that his ever-inquisitive nature, always thirsty for new knowledge, absorbed during his tours of Europe.

His brushstrokes are so large now that they are no longer a part of creating shapes and forms — they become a form in themselves. Color is liberated from its descriptive function and powerfully reveals its own authentic expressiveness. The reality of the landscape dissolves in the search for authentic inner beauty.

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