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"Kandinski, Mondrian and Jackson Pollock stood as giants in the art of the 20th century. They had different styles, of course, and each chased after a different vision of life, yet they each put themselves and their beliefs onto their canvas. The 20th century gave birth to abstraction and these men were present at the conception.
Wassily Kandinski painted ostensibly in pure abstract, using color to give life to his work, but he often chose to intertwine the abstract with the real or even beyond the real. His compositions, which he compared to symphonies, gradually evolved into masses of color, which he used to evoke emotion. As a young man Wagner’s monumental works had moved him and he sought to evoke the same emotion for the viewer of his visual art. The earlier compositions explode crescendo-like onto the viewer.
The difference between the works Composition VII and Composition VIII is startling. There is no longer the riot of color and the multiple focal points; gone is any hint at representative figures. The idea of controlled mayhem is gone. There is orderly form in its place. Kandinski had grown."
