Composition VII

Composition VII is an abstract oil painting executed in 1913 by Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian-born painter.

Art historians have concluded that the work is a combination of the themes of Resurrection, Judgment Day, the Flood and the Garden of Eden.

The watercolor is the first extant entry in Wassily Kandinsky's parallel series of abstract "Compositions" and "Improvisations" that began to emerge during his Blue Rider Period.

Kandinsky's work from the second decade of the 20th century displays a fair degree of progressive continuity away from the representational traditions of Western European art and towards pure abstraction.

Contemporary with Cubism and Futurism, and the increasingly abstract work of Robert Delaunay, Francis Picabia, František Kupka, Léopold Survage, Piet Mondrian, and Hilma af Klint,[3] Kandinsky's are generally understood as one element of a more general and distributed transition to abstraction.

Wassily Kandinsky , 1913, Untitled (Study for Composition VII, Première abstraction) , Musée National d'Art Moderne , Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris