11 tableux et 7 poèmes 1945

"11 tableux et 7 poèmes" by Wassily Kandinsky is a playful arrangement of shapes and colours floating in the white space of the page. I imagine Kandinsky was a bit of a trickster. There's this push and pull between control and letting go. Look at how he’s carefully laid down each colour, and how they seem to react to each other; they are like individual characters, and there’s a whole system of kinship going on. There's something so alive in the way he paints, each shape is so simple and yet the whole is incredibly complex. In my own practice, I'm always trying to balance intention and intuition, like he does here. It's this tension that makes the work so engaging and open to interpretation. He was a master of inventing a new language of abstraction, opening doors for generations of artists to explore the poetics of form and colour.