On White II, Wassily Kandinsky (1923)
A canvas from the Bauhaus period, which the Kandinskys had hanging in their dining room in Dessau, Auf Weiss II depicts the tension between two diagonal lines emanating from an almost square background, the white of which gives the painting its title.
With its primary colors, its geometric forms, and the way the composition floats weightlessly in an apparently infinite space, this canvas is comparable to the suprematism of Malevich, with whom Kandinsky became acquainted in Moscow.
