id:			160894
accession number:	1999.176
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.176
updated:		2022-06-07 09:01:31.808000

Sounds: Boat Trip, 1911. Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944). Color woodcut; sheet: 28 x 27.9 cm (11 x 11 in.); image: 22 x 22.1 cm (8 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1999.176 ©  Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Sounds: Boat Trip
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creation date:			1911
creation date earliest:		1911
creation date latest:		1911
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			©  Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	Russia, 20th century
technique:	color woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Roethel 115

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CREATORS

* Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 28 x 27.9 cm (11 x 11 in.); Image: 22 x 22.1 cm (8 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
state of the work:	only
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	description:	laid paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints
	opening date:   2000-09-17T00:00:00
	<i>From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).

	title:		Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection
	opening date:   2003-08-17T00:00:00
	<i>Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).

	title:		Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints
	opening date:   2015-01-25T00:00:00
	<i>Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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For Kandinsky, music functioned perfectly as an abstract art: it does not require words or narrative to elicit a direct and powerful emotional response from the listener. For him, representational art--art that focused on depicting recognizable subjects such as figures, landscapes, still lifes-squandered the possibility of speaking directly to the viewer’s soul. Kandinsky wanted visual art to achieve the emotional impact of music through abstraction rather than representation. He believed that the only way for art to elicit an emotional response was to speak to the unconscious, bypassing logic and other forms of reasoning.
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