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| Keywords: Cossacks 1910-1 Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944 Presented by Mrs Hazel McKinley 1938 www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N04948 Cossacks 1910-1 Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944 Presented by Mrs Hazel McKinley 1938 www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N04948 Cossacks 1910-1 Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944 Presented by Mrs Hazel McKinley 1938 <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N04948" rel="nofollow">www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N04948</a> Wassily Kandinsky Cossacks or Cosaques 1910–1.jpg en From The Tate This was painted at the moment in Kandinsky's career when he was living in Germany near Munich and moving rapidly from a form of Expressionism towards Abstraction It was acquired by the Tate Gallery in 1938 and in a letter to a friend not long after Kandinsky wrote 'an American woman living in London has bought a pre-war painting from me and presented it to the Tate Gallery in London It is the first truly modern painting in the famous museum in London The painting is called Cosaques dates from the year 1911 still bears traces of the object but makes nevertheless a wholly concrete impression' By the time of this letter 'concrete' had become a widely used term for abstract art as had 'non-objective' The painting was also at one time titled 'Battle' The 'traces of the object ' which Kandinsky mentions are as follows in the upper left portion of the picture are two horses rearing up against each other their front legs interlocking Each has a Cossack Russian cavalry rider wearing a tall fur hat which Kandinsky has here painted orange-red Each is swinging a long curved sabre painted mauve Below the horses is a rainbow bridging a valley and to the left of that what appear to be two batteries of guns one of which is firing producing a cloud of red and orange flame On the other side of the valley is a building suggesting a fortress and below it are three more Cossacks again distinguishable by their orange hats Two of them carry long black lances and the third has his arm extended and is leaning on his sabre A flock of birds flies agitatedly in the sky 1910 http //www tate org uk/art/artworks/kandinsky-cossacks-n04948/text-illustrated-companion Wassily Kandinsky other versions PD-Art Wassily Kandinsky | ||||
