Wassily Kandinsky: “Yellow – Red – Blue” (1925), Giclée reproduction on canvas

In 1922, Kandinsky accepted Walter Gropius's offer to teach at the Bauhaus. He combined teaching with intensive theoretical study and, in 1926, followed up his famous book "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" (1911) with "Point and Line to Plane," the ninth volume of the Bauhaus Writings. In this work, spanning more than 200 pages, he explains the foundations of his painting and lays out his logic of color and form, in which, for example, blue is associated with the circle, yellow with the acute-angled triangle, and red with the square. Kandinsky's synesthetic system extends far beyond these simple basic forms, incorporating linear forms, and even associated sounds and smells, into his intricately nuanced art-historical and historical argument. The work offered here, from 1925, exemplifies his ideas on color and form harmony almost perfectly. About Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), abstract expressionist, co-founder of the artists' group "Der Blaue Reiter" (The Blue Rider): Kandinsky, like no other, wrote the "alphabet of 20th-century art." In his abstract painting, he brought the primal power of color and composition to bear without the distraction of depicting objects. According to him, the mystery of LIFE could only be grasped and represented through the abstract interplay of color and graphic form.