Sketch 2 for composition VII

Wassily Kandinsky’s Sketch 2 for Composition VII is a pivotal piece that shows his journey into abstraction and the deliberate complexity behind his larger works.

Like its related sketches, this drawing is not a study of the visible world but a plan for expressing inner spiritual necessity through color and form. It demonstrates Kandinsky’s methodical process of arranging seemingly spontaneous explosions of color into a controlled, powerful composition.

The work is fundamentally about translating music and emotion into visual language. Kandinsky believed that different colors and lines resonated with distinct feelings, and this sketch maps out that emotional architecture. Its context lies in the artist’s push toward non objective art, treating the canvas as a space for internal feeling rather than external representation.