Delicate Tension Magnets
Description: Delicate Tension 1923 Watercolor on paper 13.8 × 9.8" (35.0 × 25.0 cm) Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Among the large series of aquarelles painted by the artist in 1922-1923, this work is listed at number 85. They are all quite similar in style: closed forms filled with color and intersecting straight lines as if they are floating in space of the canvas. Circles and triangles dominate – they are, in the artist's opinion, two primary and the most contrasting figures. This geometric abstraction of the Bauhaus period perfectly demonstrates the well-recognized artist's hand that reached the peak of expressiveness in the Composition VIII. The influence of Russian constructivism of the revolutionary years and the laconic ...
