Dome

Detail, upper right corner; In autumn 1921 Kandinsky was invited by Walter Gropius to visit the Bauhaus and became a professor at the Bauhaus in Weimar. By 1921 he began to use the circle in several canvases, which reflected his exposure to the Russian avant-garde artists. During the Bauhaus period, Kandinsky used circles, squares, triangles, zigzags, chequer-boards and arrows as components of his abstract vocabulary. They became meaningful pictorial elements just as the abstract images of towers, horses, boats and rowers had carried connotations in his art in earlier years. In the mid-1920s the theoretical aspect of Kandinsky’s work became increasingly apparent. He painted Yellow-Red-Blue while working on the manuscript of Punkt und Linie zu Fläche, which he had begun in 1914. The title of the painting refers to the three primary colors, which dominate the canvas and are arranged in the same sequence as in the color scale. In Punkt und Linie zu Fläche he elaborated on the significance of color, geometric forms, placement of compositional elements and directionality. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 5/23/2014)