Several Circles (Einige Kreise)

Several Circles, which also known as Einige Kreise, is often credited as one of Wassily Kandinsky masterpiece. Painted in January – February 1926 during his tenure at the faculty of the Weimar Bauhaus in Munich, this oil painting on canvas work of art is considerably a perfect example of his pioneering work in abstraction. Composed of a series of circles that “float serenely across one another above an indiscriminate gray-black ground”, the Several Circles illustrates the highly experimental tenants of color, object, image, and form that Kandinsky sought to foster throughout his entire career. Here, the artist expounds on his ideas of the circle as more than just 360 degrees and a geometric shape, that it has endless possibilities --which are illustrated perfectly in the painting. “The circle,” claimed Kandinsky, “is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.” Currently, the authentic Einige Kreise painting that measures 55.25 × 55.375 inches (140.3 × 140.7 cm), is listed as one of the collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.