Wassily Kandinsky moved away from the representation of the visible world and arrived at abstract painting around 1910. He combined the fundamental elements of painting—points, lines, and planes—with color, organizing them through musical principles such as repetition and variation. For Kandinsky, the interaction of geometric forms, lines, and colors within the pictorial space to create a unified harmony was what he called “Composition,” a concept central to his abstract art.
In this work, soft expanses of color and organic forms are intersected by sharp lines and geometric elements. The coexistence of these contrasting qualities, held in a state of dynamic tension yet brought into harmony, embodies the world suggested by the title Hart in Weich and conveys the rich resonance of the “Composition” that Kandinsky sought to achieve.