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Abstract painting in various bright colors—yellow, blue, red, green, orange, pink—with lines indicating building-like structures as well as canons in the lower right corner.

Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)

Wassily Kandinsky · 1913

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Palette

Mushroom
 48% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Slate
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.9:1
Blue-grey
 12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Brick
 10% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.8:1
Sand
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1
Denim
 5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.3:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Wassily Kandinsky
Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944
Date
1913
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
111 × 111.3 cm (43 11/16 × 43 13/16 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
Early Modernism · 20th century
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 53, colourfulness 16

Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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