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Nominator: The Blue Rider (talk · contribs) 14:40, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 20:37, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
Time someone reviewed this one.
- The article begins well with an interesting and informative ‘Background’, but this turns out to form nearly half of the main text (excluding the lead).
- ‘Description’ is a single sentence: are there really no critics, scholars, or artists who have left quotable descriptions of the work? Sue Hubbard is cited but neither attributed nor quoted (nor is the ref filled out with the proper parameters).
- Why is Kandinsky’s Der Blaue Reiter almanac neither mentioned nor illustrated? It needs to be cited both to the original publication and to at least one scholar who discusses the almanac and its relationship to the painting.
- ‘Interpretation’ too seems very thin. Why did this image make such an impression? What was that impression exactly? Who said so? What did those critics say? Why has it been called Kandinsky’s most famous work? Who first said that, and when?
- Para 2 of ‘Interpretation’ includes a quotation. This must be a) attributed to the author explicitly in the text, and b) cited directly after the closing quotation mark to the source it comes from.
- The text hints at a difference between “abstract art” and “abstractionism”. What is that difference, and how does it apply in this case?
- ‘Legacy’ names the movement but does not give the date, nor does it describe how and where the movement came into being. Munich? Was the movement purely German? Did it spread to other countries later? What influence did it have on modern art more generally? Who said “inner necessity”? Franz Marc should be wikilinked and glossed at his first appearance in the main text. You might like to look at Timpano 2020 (on the Tate) and Milz 2007 (on Beckett) for a bit more on the legacy: there is certainly more to say on this in Britain and other countries.
- There should be a section “The Blue Rider movement” which might be a major subsection of ‘Legacy’. It should have a “main” link to Der Blaue Reiter (the movement), and a few paragraphs that summarize that article, suitably cited. It might be illustrated with Franz Marc’s painting Blue Horse I, 1911.
- The lead’s second paragraph reads as an uncited and quite interesting brief artistic essay about the painting and its place in Kandinsky’s work, but it is unfortunately not echoed or cited in the main text. To give just two examples, “amorphous” and “sensation” occur in the lead but nowhere in the text. The article would be greatly improved with a longer, cited, and attributed version of this paragraph in ‘Interpretation’.
Images
- Currently only the work itself, which is PD.
- Given the comparisons with Van Gogh and Monet, wouldn’t it be wise to include thumbnails of one of each man’s paintings?
- Done – Van Gogh but not Monet, so far …
- Similarly, why not include a work by Macke and one by von Jawlensky?
- Done – and Macke but not von Jawlensky …
- 5 images for an article of this size is excessive; maybe when I expand it, it will have more space for new images…
- Done – and Macke but not von Jawlensky …
Sources
- The sources used are acceptable, but the article’s sourcing does look rather thin. Given that this was the work that founded a school of painting, there is much more to say, with more sources and more text. You might consider, to begin with, among many possible sources:
- Why is [3] only linked to the book’s blurb page, for instance? It should have the editor and specific page numbers.
- Done
- The sources in Portuguese and German need |trans-title= parameters, filled in with the English translations of their titles.
- Done
- Given that more sources seem to be needed, I’ll hold off on source checks for now.
Summary
- This article feels incomplete at the moment. Some good points have been made, but the article is so short that it seems only to allude briefly to the painting’s great fame and influence, rather than outlining what those consisted of. I think some substantial additional detailing is required, with new sources. That will require a second pass to check the GA criteria when the suggested work has been completed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:59, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
