Yellow Red Blue

Established in Weimar from 1922 to 1925, Kandinsky, at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, joined the team of professors at the Bauhaus. His painting became rigorously geometric. In 1925 he left Bauhaus for Dessau. Kandinsky's painting then returned to the curved line, and color gradations once again nuanced his compositions. Yellow-red-blue is the most important work of this period.

The artwork is composed of two opposing parts: geometric lines on the left, free forms on the right. The main emphasis is placed on the three primary colors which, from left to right and in order: yellow, red, blue, articulate the composition. The opposition of warm yellow, linked to movement, and cold, stable blue, linked to the shape of the circle, is brought into play.