Russian Avant-Garde

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

— Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944, Russian)

(Source: artchipel)

…We propose liberating painting from its subservience to the ready-made form of reality and to make it first and foremost a creative, not a reproductive art.
The savage happily drawing the outlines of a bull or a deer on a piece of stone, the primitive, the academician, the artists of antiquity and of the Renaissance, the Impressionists, the Cubists, and even to some degree the Futurists are all united by the same thing: the object, These artists are intrigued, delighted, amazed and gladdened by nature. They try to fathom her essence, they aspire to immortalize her…

— Olga Rozanova, Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism