How abstract is Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisation XIV?

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Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center — Wassily Kandinsky *Painting with Green Center*, oil on canvas by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913; in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisation XIV (1910) is described as being "practically abstract."1

During this period of his career, Kandinsky was in the process of moving away from figurative art toward a personal style that utilized colors, lines, and shapes to express ideas and evoke emotions, similar to the way music functions as an abstract language. While works like Improvisation XIV are considered practically abstract, they represent a stage in his evolution toward the complete, nonrepresentational abstraction seen in his later works, such as Composition VII (1913).12