1910
oil on canvas
131 х 97

Kandinsky is considered as the originator of abstract painting. The artist saw the direction of new art as leading to an essential shift from depiction of external forms of the world to their inner content. The master strived to express his feelings not by means of figurative forms of one or another subject but by purely painterly means. He gets a certain emotional response from the viewer by his use of light, line and abstract form. The subject, without which figurative art is unthinkable, is absent here. Instead of the usual genres, Kandinsky distinguishes between an impression, an improvisation and a composition. An impression is an expression of direct impressions of nature or of “outer nature.” An improvisation is an expression of the processes of inner character which arise suddenly and, principally, unconsciously. This is an impression of “inner nature.” A composition is a synthesis of impressions from “outer” and “inner” nature. Improvisation 7 is one of the artist’s early works. The figurative forms here literally dissolve in movement of planes and lines which are colour harmonised in a complex manner.