Two collages with kandinsky and various sources

A sketch Kandinsky's "Black Triangle," a weird political cartoon, and linen from a clothing catalogue I didn't ask for

I found this Kandinsky book, Point and Line to Plane, which is all manifesto-y and full of heady ideas about art and geometry.

www.wassilykandinsky.net

Wassily Kandinsky - Point and Line to Plane, 1926

This black-and-white sketch of "Black Triangle" caught my attention.

Cutting mat with sketch of Wassily Kandinsky's "Black Triangle"

I didn't try to match the geometry or subtle color composition of the original.

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Category:Black Triangle - Wassily Kandinsky - Wikimedia Commons

Cut some stuff up, and wound up with this:

Collage of a humanoid sort of figure, geometric, with blues and purples offset by oranges. Columns of printed words frame the figure

I kept working with some of the Kandinsky language, and started with that for this one, which also includes stuff from and '80s Games magazine, this summer's Marine Layer catalog, and a weird political cartoon from an '80s Newsweek.

Collage in steps, featuring various image and language and framed by rainbow lines. Includes text on the immutability of the dictionary and random text from a multiple-choice quiz, as well as images of morel mushrooms and paintings of "Stalin" and "Lennon" (like, the Beatle), from a political cartoon

(The political cartoon, which is worth seeing. Why is that portrait of Lennon there? Are they trolling?)

Newsweek political cartoon with Gorbachev, Bush Sr., and paintings of Stalin (the Soviet dicator) and Lennon (the Beatle) on the wall.