Year 1914 Artist Ado Vabbe | Type pastel on paper Created 1914 | |
Dimensions 30.5 cm × 37.5 cm (12.0 in × 14.8 in) Location Tartu Art Museum, Tartu | ||
Paraphrase E is one of a series of avant-garde drawings called paraphrases by Ado Vabbe in the Tartu Art Museum.
The drawing shows a set of lines that act as partial contours of possible images, such as faces and the rear end of a horse. Ado Vabbe was the first to bring abstraction to Estonia after studying with Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in Munich during the years 1911-1923. The German Expressionist Group Der Blaue Reiter was to have a great influence on his own work, and his "paraphrases" influenced young artists in Estonia.
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