"Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles," Wassily Kandinsky, 1913.

"Composition IX," Wassily Kandinsky, 1936.

OK, y'all know Kandinsky by now. This is an interesting piece, colorful but not angry or shrill, and a mixture of angular forms and curves. Apparently he got the inspiration for this piece from looking out his window one morning and seeing some chimneys at a local factory in the morning light, and then watching them start to spew smoke.

So, it's not really a depiction of industrial chimneys, but an inspiration, with the angles and curves being the interplay of the industrial with the natural.

Kandinsky can be frustrating, but understanding what's going on here helps a lot, and it's a relatively pleasant piece to look at, a joyful juxtaposition of elements in a way that works.

From the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

"Painting with Troika," Wassily Kandinsky, 1911.

I've talked about Kandinsky before. This is an intriguing canvas for him; it's not entirely just abstract forms. This time it's got recognizable forms but used in unusual ways. On the right we see a troika, a cart pulled by three horses. It seems to be on a causeway with crashing waves. Maybe. Is that blue behind it to be an out-of-perspective body of water?

And what of the three figures, seemingly musicians, off to the left? What is their role?

Kandinsky was a founder of an art group called Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) so I'm guessing the cart may be referring to that, at least. They championed the spontaneous and intuitive, which may be just the point of this canvas: Wassily being spontaneous and intuitive. A good example of how something may not make sense to everyone, but it makes sense to you.

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

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"Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)," Wassily Kandinsky, 1913.

Kandinsky (1866-1944) is justly noted as one of the great pioneers of abstract art....but not the first! We have Hilma af Klint to thank in that department...

I usually find abstract art frustrating, in that I know that it makes a big impact on me...but I can't say exactly WHY except maybe, "Oooh, look at the colors!" Here, at least, we can see the cannons and the buildings. This was painted between 1911 and 1913, in the years building up to WWI. One can see that Kandinsky was cognizant of how the world was teetering on the brink of calamity.

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Wassily Kandinsky (Moscú, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944)

Animation by Peter Ryan

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Apple Tree
(1911)

An illustration to his musical album 'Sounds' and apparently an echo of the biblical tree of knowledge and heavenly paradise and its temptations.

https://youtu.be/0T0S6uF1B-w?list=PLUqXEjDlDhnDTvDSoGDX9LVXIEzrYK_2r

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The Singer
1903

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Circle and Square, 1943
Oil and tempera on cardboard
Centre Pompidou

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Dream Motion
1923.

Wassily and Nina Kandinsky in the Bauhaus “Salon de musique”, 1931
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Park of St. Cloud with horseman, 1906 #postimpressionism #wassilykandinsky https://www.wikiart.org/en/wassily-kandinsky/park-of-st-cloud-with-horseman-1906

Gabriele Munter, 1905 #wassilykandinsky #kandinsky https://www.wikiart.org/en/wassily-kandinsky/gabriele-munter-1905