Singer

The Singer's flowing lines and muted colors suggest the early Symbolist and Jugendstil tendencies of Kandinsky's early work in Munich. During this period, Kandinsky's work began to develop and strengthen into the abstracted style he is known for today, nearly a decade before his close collaboration with Franz Marc and Paul Klee in the Blaue Reiter group. Kandinsky was captivated with the woodcut technique, claiming that this medium synthesized elements of music, poetry, and the fine arts. He saw working with woodcuts as crucial to the development of his painting, and thus an important introduction to his later abstractions.