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He had recently encountered the work of Matisse and the Fauves at the 1905 Salon d'Automne, and the influence is legible in the non-local reds scattered across what should be a brown forest floor; color here serves emotional logic rather than descriptive accuracy. Art historians regard the Saint-Cloud park series as a critical hinge in Kandinsky's development: the representational subject is still intact, but the painterly decisions (the refusal of smooth modeling, the arbitrary intensification of hue) point unmistakably toward the pure abstraction he would codify in \u003cem\u003eConcerning the Spiritual in Art\u003c\/em\u003e just five years later. 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