Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled (from the portfolio for Walter Gropius), 1924 / Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled (from the portfolio for Walter Gropius), 1924 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled (from the portfolio for Walter Gropius), 1924

Wassily Kandinsky uses the newspaper photo as a starting-point for a composition of flowing colours and shapes: the loudspeaker cone is transformed into a yellow triangle, which is now transmitting towards the centre of the picture from an obliquely arranged ‘window ledge’. Various lines set at right angles to the sound ray block the diagonal movement several times, until at the top left a propeller-like shape spreads the ray’s energy through the space in quietly floating coloured circles.