Diagramas para Composição VII

Esboço(70 em Dabrowski).

Desenho (69 em Dabarovski)

Esboços

"Several diagrammatic drawings, with various inscriptions in Russian and German, especially illuminate Kandinsky's process of creating Composition VII. A schematic pen-and-ink drawing (pi. 69) highlights with quick, thin lines the basic outline of the general conception of the picture and more specifically identifies (in Russian) the individual colors and ideas. Its inscriptions indicate that the artist is working out some basic details of Composition VII and places what he calls the "genesis" — depicted by a red and a blue line — in the lower left corner; "abyss" at lower right, below a semi circular section marked "yellow dirt"; in upper left, "discontinuity" (probably of forms and colors); at center top, "clear and divided" (or right and resolution), marked in warm red; the central motif, placed higher than in the final oil, specifies "on white exact" and is surrounded on the left by "red (hot)." Such notes attest to Kandinsky's extremely methodical process of creation, also emphasized by a few other drawings that analyze further the structure of the compositional scheme, in terms of movement and interaction of elements (pi. 70),color (pi. 71), and organization of masses (pi. 72). Another pen-and-ink drawing, more specific in the definition of the compositional parts (pi. 73), shows

in a linear fashion the direction and placement of the pictorial components and defines the central section contained within the upper and lower semicircular line as the main field of activity. Here, the oval form intersected by the rectilinear one is situated much higher and is closer to the top section of the pictorial field than it is in the final canvas. The inscriptions relate to the disposition of colors. There is also a small sketch of a detail with a double triangle as its center (pi. 74) that might have a connection to a central motif in the oil sketch Study for Composition VII (pi. 77). It seems to disappear in the final composition."Dabrowski, 42.