Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction

Picture with a Circle, 1911

Kandinsky had a lifelong fascination with mysticism.  Circles represented many things to him, including symbols of celestial order
Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi / Artist Rights Society / ADAGP

Picture with a Circle, 1911
Kandinsky had a lifelong fascination with mysticism. Circles represented many things to him, including symbols of celestial order. He once said of them: "Of the three primary forms [triangle, square, circle], it points most clearly to the fourth dimension." This may be his first entirely abstract work.

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