Painting with a green center Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Description of Vasily Kandinsky’s "Painting with a Green Center"

The painting was painted in oil on canvas in 1913. The work with the green center by Wassily Kandinsky has a traditional compositional structure. The artist builds the composition depicted from the center. It is in this way painted image of many works of the master. In the presented work, the central place is taken by a figure of green. The figure is not indefinite form, not closed.

The picture is painted in the spirit of symbolism. Each color used by the artist, as a particular symbol that evokes in the viewer certain feelings. For example: a cold blue color symbolizes coolness and evokes associations with the sea, ice, moonlight or lit darkness; the green color has many shades, thanks to which gets a special depth in the work, symbolizes calmness, plays the role of a neutralizer between yellow and blue shades; red is associated with fire and blood, symbolizes the internal movement; the abundance of yellow in the picture, gives the artist’s work dynamic and symbolizes an irresistible desire for something.

The combination of color composition is very important in the picture. The content of the painting complements the contrasting colors: red and green, blue and yellow, black and white. The play of colors is brilliantly and very harmoniously done by the artist. Each shade has its own expression in an intricate form. The combination of form and color, gives the viewer the illusion of vibrating iridescence, which when viewed even physically.

Masterful construction of the elements of the image, perfectly matched color combination, makes the work a masterpiece. Looking at the painting with the green center, we can conclude that its author is a genius, because none of the followers was able to write a similar masterpiece.