Several Circles, January-February 1926.
Circles are a dorminant motif in the art of Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), a Russian painter who in the early twentieth century became a pioneer of abstract painting. For Kandinsky, geometric shapes contained an expressive content and conveyed psychological and spiritual effects beyond their formal qualities. Kandinsky expressed his views on abstract form in several important aesthetic reatises, as well as through teaching at the Bauhaus, the design school in Germany where he served as an instructor from 1922-33.
During these years Kandinsky painted
Several Circles, and wrote: "The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric adn the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms [tringle, square, circle], it points most clearly to the fourth dimension."
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