Wassily Kandinsky

One of the first steps in the turning away from material objects into the realm of the abstract was, to use the technical artistic term, the rejection of the third dimension. That is to say, the attempt to keep a picture on a single plane. Modelling was abandoned.

Kandinsky’s world colour becomes a medium to mainly express emotions rather than simply depict reality.

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Decisive Rose, March 1932.

Capricious Forms, July 1937.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.