Dominant Curve by Wassily Kandinsky George Barbier Kandinsky believed specific colours carried

Kandinsky believed specific colours carried their own emotional register — violet

developed for the Grand Larousse encyclopaedia

and deep blue floats against an open sky with the kind of impossible calm that only vintage graphic art achieves

aged tones of the paper root the composition in the natural history tradition

each leaflet rendered with meticulous precision

Dominant Curve by Wassily Kandinsky George Barbier Kandinsky believed specific colours carriedDominant Curve, painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1936, is a late career statement from one of abstraction's founding voices. The composition balances bold arcs against scattered geometric forms in a palette that moves from warm ochres and reds to cool blues and blacks a visual score as much as a painting. Kandinsky believed colour and form could function like music, triggering emotion directly, without the mediation of representation. Dominant Curve