Magnetic Mountain

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The work can be a bright example of the original combination of the methods of different avant-garde art movements on one canvas. The mountain is depicted in a cubistic manner, images are close to abstraction by their mysteriousness; the general idea and detailed elaboration of elements, as well as their behavior, are signs of Surrealism. The bright painting, in which the main understandable hero is a horse, was inspired by medieval carnivals, held in the artist’s hometown of Basel. “The impressions of childhood,” said Kurt, “armor, knights, fights”.