Wassily Kandinsky

Composition VII — the invention of abstraction

The painter who took the final step — eliminating the object entirely. His theoretical writings (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) argued that color and form could express inner states directly, like music. The Compositions are the first fully abstract masterpieces, and they opened a door that has never closed.

Key works

• Composition VII1913— The most complex of the early abstractions
  Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• Concerning the Spiritual in Art1911— The theoretical manifesto of abstraction

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