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Circle in Art: Kandinsky's Famous Painting
Expressionism
Kandinsky “Squares with Concentric Circles”
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian-born artist who made his name working in Germany in an art style called Expressionism.
For Kandinsky (and many other modernists) circles represented ideas around progress, regeneration, and renewal.
From 1923 to 1929, Kandinsky made a series of ten major paintings, all focused on the circle motif.
The concentric circle holds several ancient meanings.
A concentric circle represents processes. Wholeness.
In other words, a circle is a set of points in a plane all the same distance from a given moment, the circle’s center.
This is one of my paintings with the circle as motif.
Some key properties and characteristics of a circle include:
Radius: The radius of a circle is the distance from the center to any point on the circle’s perimeter (circumference). All radii of the same circle have equal lengths.
