Which Russian painter created 'Composition VII'?

Wassily Kandinsky created Composition VII. Painted in 1913, it is a monumental abstract oil painting now held by Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery.

The work belongs to Kandinsky’s influential series of “Compositions,” which he developed during his Blue Rider period in Munich. Although the canvas appears nonrepresentational, Kandinsky associated it with spiritual and biblical themes including the Resurrection, Judgment Day, the Flood, and the Garden of Eden.

Composition VII measures about 200.6 by 302.2 centimetres. Kandinsky prepared numerous studies and sketches, yet his companion Gabriele Münter recalled that he completed the final canvas in only a few days in November 1913. That contrast reflects his method: carefully planning the overall structure while allowing colour, gesture, and intuition to drive the final image.

Robert Delaunay, Piet Mondrian, and Kazimir Malevich are reasonable artistic mix-ups because all were important modernist or abstract artists. However, they did not create Composition VII. Kandinsky’s work is particularly significant because it helped establish abstraction as an independent artistic language rather than merely a distortion of visible subjects.