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| Heavy Circles, 1927 Vasily Kandinsky Russian, 1866-1944 Oil on canvas 22-1/2 x 20-1/2 in. (57.2 x 52.1 cm) Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection P.1953.216 © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Reproduction, including downloading of ARS works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York On view Kandinsky explained what the circle meant to him: "It is a link with the cosmic. But I use it, above all, formally. ...Why does the circle fascinate me? It is: 1. the most modest form, but asserts itself unconditionally, 2. a precise, but inexhaustible variable, 3. simultaneously stable and unstable, 4. simultaneously loud and soft, 5. a single tension that carries countless tensions within it. The circle 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 [triangle, circle, square], it points most clearly to the fourth dimension." View Provenance
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