Green emptyness
- Artist
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Date
- 1930 ; Alten \/ Dessau-alten , Germany
- Style
- Abstract art
- Genre
- Abstract
- Location
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
'Green Emptiness' is a striking piece of the 20th-century Abstract art, a movement that diverged from the precise representations of traditional art, instead choosing to encapsulate an Abstract and emotional narrative. Painted on a large Canvas, the scene embodies the facets of Fauvism, a style defined by its wild and expressive brush strokes saturated with color. The predominant use of green symbolizes a sense of calm and renewal. The Oil medium enriches the colors and gives vibrancy to the piece, giving it an amount of expressive freedom reminiscent of Henri Matisse's works.
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