Assignment fourteen
Q1.
Abstraction is a kind of art that achieves its effect by the use of shapes, colors, forms, and gestural marks rather than striving to create a perfect representation of a visual reality.
The horse-and-rider image signified Kandinsky’s fight against traditional aesthetic norms and vision of a better, more spiritual future via the transforming powers of art. From the artist’s folk-inspired works in his home in early 1900s to his abstracted landscapes painted in Munich, the rider appears in a variety of woodcuts, temperas, and oils. Supremacist Composition does not include an airplane.
