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Kandinsky painted this work while teaching at the Bauhaus, the innovative architecture and art school founded by Walter Gropius. The two metre wide painting mixed forms and coloured masses into a harmonious whole - but what does it all mean?
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I have a print occupying pride of place. Never tire of it. Music to the eyes. Sometimes I see a refrigerator ajar with all the delights my stomach yearns for, about to be revealed.
Gail , Ripley, England
I do not spend much time trying to figure out what the shapes may be. I tend to marvel at the constellation of colours, the distribution of semi-transparent and opaque shapes and the shapes themself. It seems as if several very different things are going on at once, somehow combined to a whole
Tamm, Frankfurt,
If you see colour first, your eye delights in wandering around picking out the colours that match or echo each other. If you see shapes first then the picture becomes more complex. An artist and his palate? Several artists and palates? Ideas exploding all over the picture surface? You decide.
Carlyle Braden, Croydon, U.K.
A balanced cacophony? It seems there may be a shape of a rational person on the left (an eye and angles indicating a nose and speech)- turned away from the over-stimulation of a world exploding with excess and waste. The blue object is tantalisingly close to consuming the person.
Ashley, Houston, TX, US
A head with a rectangular yellow brain, topped by a light bulb depicting the thought process. The amalgam of colours and shapes on the right is the daily input. The rectangles and lines below the 'nose' portray speech. The blue 'cloudy' area at the foot of the page denotes the night.
Lori, Campbeltown, Scotland
When I look at this painting, my perception is that Kandinsky was painting a truly abstract picture, not an 'abstracted' oneone derived from the material world. It is not a lighthouse or a face, but a moment of perception before his or our habitual thoughts and feelings change it into something.
Alex, London, Canada
At school in the 1970's I tried to re-create a Kandinsky style painting. The point is/was: he knew what he was trying to represent. In my view my/your appreciation is dependent on how we interpret the painting and to do that I don't think you need to know what he was trying to convey.
liam duffy, hornchurch, uk
as a kid in art class, those without talent (me!) were told to cut up and reorganise their pictures in different patterns, adding shapes and colours and mediums. It looks to me like this was from the same class. Its hard to see the talent, just confusion.
richc, alicante,
A lighthouse and the sea. Obviously.
Ian, Bristol, UK
it looks like a crowded tube platform with light shining out of the tunnel
Nitro, Fort William, Scotland
to me it looks like 2 people, or 2 facets of the same person - one scientific, rational, mathematic, and the other artistic, irrational, and illogical. This them seems (to me anyway) to be continued in what appears to be different phases of the moon.
billy, Glasgow, Scotland
Two continents overlooked by the sun. On the right hand side we have the cultural sophistication and history of Europe, on the left hand side - the New World.
carole smith, antibes, france
The deep cadmium yellow rectangle pulls the eye and holds it only to release it to the the blueish green ball above it. The whole painting is a setting for that one ball. Context for that hypnotic ball . We are hurled beyond the rule of thirds to that one litle ball perfectly in the wrong place.
Tallulah, Hove, UK