Painting with Red Spot, Wassily Kandinsky (1914-)
The composition as a whole, which contributes to a certain destabilization, has no link to the material world, and departs from a spot of red, painted flat and perfectly defined. This spot is a reference to the red corner of Russian izbas (cottages), where the protective icon is placed.
The colors are of varying thicknesses and depths, floating in front of one another, and covered in places with highly graphical colored and black converging lines. The trapezoid double arc at the top of the painting connects two essential focal points: the red spot that gives the impression of wanting to become a circle, which went on to become a characteristic of Kandinsky's work, and the other focal point which is an explosion of colored shapes on a black background.
