Returning to Munich after a trip to Moscow in the autumn of 1912, Vassily Kandinsky was looking for a way to project visually, but in an abstract way, the "extremely powerful impressions" of his native Russia. For five months, he explored various motifs and compositions, playing freely with pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and oil. After several studies, he came to the conclusion that the white border was the pictorial solution. And so, from 1913 onwards, this colour of the absolute for the painter was used in some of his paintings. It was as if the image he had just created emerged from a cloud, from a vision.
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