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Chromatic Tension

colour · force · the body

A second cut through the modern collection: twelve works where colour stops describing the world and starts exerting pressure on it.

works 12artists 6dates 1906 – 1921on the wall 12.4 m
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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.
Key work of the hall Vasily Kandinsky Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) 1913 · Oil on canvas
Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain (CC0)
image: Wikimedia Commons · CC0

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1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 01 Renaissance and Before 1434 – 1610 02 The Seventeenth Century 1610 – 1695 03 The Barbizon School 1857 – 1871 04 Realism 1822 – 1906 05 Impressionism 1866 – 1893 06 Post-Impressionism 1881 – 1907 07 Modernism 1891 – 1920 08 Ukiyo-e 1744 – 1837 09 Pictorialism 1877 – 1903 10 Folk Art 1799 – 1871 11 Modern Forms 1899 – 1940 12 Chromatic Tension 1906 – 1921 · you are here 13 Line / Surface 1899 – 1940 14 Light / Silver 1877 – 1903 15 Figure / Gesture 1891 – 1916 Bar spans the earliest and latest work in the hall. Ticks are the individual dates in the hall you are in.
01Renaissance and Before12 works · 11.1 m
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02The Seventeenth Century12 works · 12.7 m
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03The Barbizon School7 works · 7.1 m
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04Realism12 works · 12.4 m
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05Impressionism12 works · 13.0 m
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06Post-Impressionism13 works · 17.3 m
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07Modernism12 works · 9.7 m
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08Ukiyo-e11 works · 5.1 m
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09Pictorialism12 works · 6.4 m
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10Folk Art12 works · 10.9 m
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11Modern Forms20 works · 19.5 m
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12Chromatic Tension12 works · 12.4 m · you are here
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13Line / Surface8 works · 6.9 m
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14Light / Silver12 works · 6.4 m
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15Figure / Gesture8 works · 5.9 m
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a person, 170 cm

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