Circles on Black by Wassily Kandinsky Exhibition People simplified forms and a confident

simplified forms and a confident colour palette give the composition an energetic

Akita Tsuchizaki by Hasui reflects the serene shin-hanga landscape tradition that defined Hasui Kawase's celebrated career as a Japanese printmaker in the early twentieth century

the work's flat colour areas and clean contours are rendered with precision on matte archival paper

part nocturnal mood piece

each element rendered in careful detail: the waxy texture of petals

Circles on Black by Wassily Kandinsky Exhibition People simplified forms and a confidentAgainst an absolute black ground, Kandinsky floats a constellation of coloured circles each one a contained world of hue and luminosity, each one vibrating differently against its neighbour and against the dark. Circles on Black distills his Bauhaus era thinking to its essence: the circle was for Kandinsky the most cosmic of forms, associated with planets, clocks, and eternity. The composition feels simultaneously scientific and mystical, its