Circle Motifs

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Kandinsky’s love for circle motif is evident in this painting as he distributed the image of colored circles all across his canvas; he said he felt the same for his love for circle motif as he had felt for his horse motif during his Pre World-War 1 paintings. This can be shown in his painting entitled “Several Circles” (see fig.9) where he only use circle as the only form to create an abstract painting of a composition that contains an infinite possibilities of spiritual interpretation to the viewer. He motioned the reason why the circle fascinate him through his writing for a friends, he listed that circle is: (1) The most modest form, but assert itself unconditionally, (2) a precise but inexhaustible variable, (3) simultaneously stable and

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