
Image # 2 Abstract Story
This abstract composition, reminiscent of Wassily Kandinsky’s visual language, presents a rhythmic interplay of geometric precision and lyrical color. The work features a central diagonal axis, established by two intersecting linear elements: a sharp green arrow shooting upward to the right and a slender black line cutting across in the opposite direction. This dynamic crossing sets the stage for a visual “push and pull,” one of Kandinsky’s signature approaches to compositional energy.
The forms radiating from these axes are curvilinear, almost musical in their flow, echoing the kind of synesthetic translation Kandinsky sought between sound and sight. Semi-circular arcs and horn-like shapes burst outward, their interiors subdivided into colorful tessellations—triangles, trapezoids, and fan-like sections—that recall the stained-glass vibrancy of Composition VIII or Several Circles.
The color palette is balanced yet playful, employing pure hues—reds, blues, yellows, greens, and purples—in flat, unmodulated application. This approach is characteristic of Kandinsky’s mature style, in which color operates independently from form, contributing to emotional resonance rather than merely describing shape. Here, the artist uses repetition of segmented rainbow-like patterns to unify the piece, while scattered spheres and floating crescents punctuate the white space like staccato notes in a score.
The composition is non-representational but feels almost like a symbolic diagram—a visual map of movement, interaction, and balance. Kandinsky believed abstract forms could evoke the “inner necessity” of the artist, and this work seems to embody such intent: ordered yet free, geometric yet organic, harmonious yet charged with tension.