Large Resurrection (Grosse Auferstehung) (Sound of the Trumpet)
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian, 1866 - 1944
1911
Color woodcut on laid paper
Image: 8 11/16 × 8 9/16 in. (22 × 21.8 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/16 × 11 7/16 in. (29 × 29 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
PR.984.27
Geography
Place Made: Russia, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
None.
Label
Kandinsky’s work mirrors the tumultuous reality of early-20th-century Europe. In the top left corner, an angelic blue trumpeter sounds the onset of the biblical apocalypse, initiating the chaotic swirls of color and interactions among the abstract marks, empty spaces, and figures.
In Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), Kandinsky described his interest in the ability of form and color to transcend the confines of representation. Here, the combinations of red and blue assert a balance, while small, jagged marks and black outlines synthesize with large, vibrant forms to produce a range of silhouettes. These non-objective arrangements reveal the artist’s inner emotions more directly than representational art through the expressive potential of form and color.
From the 2024 exhibition, A Space for Dialogue 116, Apocalypse When: reflections on our collective psyche, Molly Rouzie '24, Homma Family Intern
Course History
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
ENGL 53, Twentieth Century British Fiction: 1900 to WWII, Brenda Silver, Spring 2013
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Gard, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019
MUS 23, Timbre and Form, Richard Beaudoin, Spring 2019
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann2, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 116, Apocalypse When: reflections on our collective psyche, Molly Rouzie '24, Homma Family Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 6 - March 2, 2024
A Space for Dialogue 67, Continuity of the Spiritual: Old and Modern Masters, Karysa Norris, Class of 2012, Class of 1954 Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7-February 5, 2012.
An Introduction of the History of Art from the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12-March 15, 1992.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 17-March 13, 1997.
Early Modern Art from the Permanent Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-April 7, 1996.
Forms and Messages: Selections from the Hood Museum of Art Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-March 10, 2002.
Modern Medieval: Materiality and Spirituality in German Expressionism, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, February 16-June 4, 2017.
Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.
Publication History
Karysa Norris, A Space for Dialogue 67, Continuity of the Spiritual: Old and Modern Masters, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. title page.
Provenance
William Weston Gallery, London, England; sold to present collection, 1984.
Catalogue Raisonne
H. Roethel, Kandinsky: Das graphische Werk, Cologne, 1970, no. 138.
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