1923 · Abstract Art
Composition VIII
By Wassily Kandinsky. Circles, diagonals and measured color create a visual rhythm that treats painting less as depiction than as an independent system of tensions.
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Circles, diagonals and measured color create a visual rhythm that treats painting less as depiction than as an independent system of tensions.
ArtistWassily Kandinsky
Date1923
MediumOil on canvas
MovementAbstract Art
CollectionSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Why it matters
Circles, diagonals and measured color create a visual rhythm that treats painting less as depiction than as an independent system of tensions.
See this work in context through Abstract Art and the Modernism period.