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How did Wassily Kandinsky create Composition VII in only three and a half days?
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Wassily Kandinsky
Painting with Green Center, oil on canvas by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Wassily Kandinsky was able to complete Composition VII in just three and a half days because he had prepared extensively before beginning the final canvas. Although the execution of the painting itself was intense, it served as the culmination of five years of artistic development and was supported by more than 30 preliminary studies—a higher number than for any other painting in his career.1
By the time he began work in his Munich studio in November 1913, Kandinsky had already established a clear vision for the piece, allowing him to focus on the complex arrangement of contrasting colors, shapes, and lines that define this ambitious work.1