Abstract & Modern

The modern break, in three temperaments. Gustav Klimt gilds — The Kiss, Hope II, Water Serpents II, Death and Life — flattening the figure into pattern while keeping the body’s warmth. Edvard Munch strips the opposite way, to nerve: The Scream, Madonna, The Dance of Life, Evening on Karl Johan Street. Wassily Kandinsky leaves representation behind entirely in the Compositions and Yellow-Red-Blue, painting what he believed music looked like.

Matisse’s Open Window sits between them, a room reduced to blocks of colour.

Abstract work is the least forgiving of poor reproduction, because there is no subject for the eye to correct against — a wrong colour is simply wrong. Each piece is printed on archival canvas at the original proportions, unframed and rolled, with a certificate of authenticity.

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