Landscape with Church (Landscape with Red Spots I) 

Wassily Kandinsky, 1913

Landscape with Church is an abstract oil on canvas, From the flattened, richly coloured views of 1908 to the radiant, antimaterial dream visions of 1913, such as this canvas, landscapes inspired by these Alpine settings evolved. The church in a landscape is a recurring topic in Kandinsky's paintings from 1908 to 1913. By 1911, there isn't much in the way of specifics. The tower has been replaced by an elongated vertical structure that appears to extend beyond the canvas in this painting. Kandinsky depicts the landscape as a spiritualized, exalted vision. By releasing colour from its descriptive purpose and revealing its hidden expressive content, he accomplishes the image's sublimity. The primary colours, placed thinly over a white basis, are the focus of the chromatic accent. The picture's main point, a red spot that inspired the title, confirms Kandinsky's assessment of red as an expanding hue that pulses forward toward the viewer, as opposed to cooler colours, particularly blue, which recede.