Color studies with information on painting technique 1913

It looks like Kandinsky made these watercolor color studies as part of his research into painting technique. What was he thinking, right? Maybe something like, How can color, freed from representation, move us? I can imagine him experimenting with color and form, shifting and changing as he followed his intuition. The color here is both intense and transparent; these circles and lines of color offer different ways of seeing, thinking, and experiencing the world. Look at that bottom right circle, how the colors float within and around each other. It's a simple gesture, but communicates everything, and in the process open up possibilities for how we might perceive the world. Kandinsky, like all artists, was in an ongoing conversation with art history, and with his contemporaries. I can imagine him talking to the other artists around him about abstraction and expression, color and form. It's all one big conversation, an exchange of ideas that stretches across time and continues to inspire.