COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
DMA_.1972.34.1
AMICA Library Year:
2003
Object Type:
Prints
Creator Name:
Kandinsky, Wassily
Creator Name:
Kandinsky, Wassily
Creator Dates/Places:
Russian, 1866 - 1944
Creator Name-CRT:
Wassily Kandinsky
Title:
Small Worlds VI (Kleine Welten VI)
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
Weimar, 1922
Creation Start Date:
1922
Creation End Date:
1922
Materials and Techniques:
woodcut
Dimensions:
Image dimensions: 10 13/16 x 9 3/16 in. (27.465 x 23.338 cm.) Image dimensions: 14 5/16 x 12 7/16 in. (36.355 x 31.593 cm.)
AMICA Contributor:
Dallas Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Dallas, Texas, USA
ID Number:
1972.34.1
Credit Line:
Dallas Museum of Art, given in memory of Sydney Hobart Carter by his wife
Copyright:
? Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Rights:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Image: Copyright Whitney Museum of American Art
Context:
This bronze cart drawn by a pair of long-horned oxen is one of many examples of an artistic type well known from the early second millennium B. C. Such models were probably votive offerings, to be left in shrines, sacred caches, or tombs. They reflect the distinctive moment when men first used domesticated horses or cattle to draw wheeled vehicles, creating the beginning of powered transport in land. Although drawings of wheeled vehicles occur all over Eurasia, this seminal development in human culture probably originated in Mesopotamia or the Russian Steppes in the late third millennium B. C. Models similar to this one occur in Syria and and in the eastern part of Anatolia. Both the combination of cold hammering and lost-wax casting used to make the piece and the new technology of wheeled transport represent the leading edge of civilization in the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. The models show both farm carts for carrying produce and war chariots. This example is a formally dazzling work that shapes the little wagon with its high railings and the oxen with their great, outflung horns to a linear design in three dimensions. Like a tracery in space, the clean-cut cart moves forward, a paradigm of intelligent craftsmanship."Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection," page 22
Related Image Identifier Link:
DMA_.1972_34_1.tif
Initial Sort:
Kandinsky, Wassily
Small Worlds VI (Kleine Welten VI)
