Musée National d'Art Moderne — Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Luxe, Calme et Volupté by Henri Matisse, 1904
The title comes from a line in a Baudelaire poem, apparently — luxury, calm, pleasure. He'd spent a summer down on the Mediterranean coast with a painter who worked entirely in separate little dots, and it looks like he tried the method on for size here before heading off somewhere else with it.
Erisava: Everything here is dots and pastel. What stops it being wallpaper?
Yellow-Red-Blue by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925
From what I can find he was teaching at the Bauhaus around this time, and he'd written a whole book arguing that colours and shapes land on you the way music does — yellow warm and close, blue cool and far off. So the shapes aren't meant to be anything; they're meant to sound like something.
Erisava: Is any of this planned, or did it just keep getting added to?
On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923
According to Wikipedia, this hung in his own dining room for years before his wife gave it to a museum after his death.
Erisava: What is actually happening in this picture?