"Der Blaue Reiter" (The Blue Rider), painted 1903 by Wassily Kandinsky
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), was a pre-WWI art movement derived from this Kandinsky painting. His Blaue Reiter was an adventure in the simplification and stylization of forms; in painting theory, figures moving right to left represent leaving home rather than returning. The artists of the Blue Riders movement believed that colors, shapes and forms had equivalence with sounds and music, and sought to create color harmonies which would be purifying to the soul.
Traveling from West to East, we are embarking on a spiritual adventure away from our homes. Riding deep blue motorcycles, we draw curvaceous lines across geographic space, the world our canvas, our souls the paint.
