Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was a friend of Paul Klee, a Swiss painter. Kandinsky was born on 16th December 1866, Moscow. His well known and most complex piece, Composition VII, was made in 1913 and now hangs in the Tretyakov Gallery in Munich.

Composition VII is a complex splash of colour, with vibrance exploding across the canvas. Many amateur critics have had to break it up into pieces to fully understand it and judge it correctly. The piece has a combination of both pastel and bold colours, all combining into a magnificent composition. If this painting was to be taken in from an audio perspective, it would sound as if an explosion was ringing in your ears, and the bright, upbeat song played by a massive orchestra. There even a few elements of taste added to the piece as well, such as the sweetness of icecream and the zing of a lemon shown through meandering and crisp linework. Even as the commotion rages within the heart of the masterpiece, the thick pieces of neutral ground frame the frenzy, the calm browns and creams giving the viewer a break from the turmoil.