Abstraction

Several Circles (1926) by Wassily Kandinsky. As reproduced in Art in Time

Kandinsky used geometric shapes to express lyrical abstraction.

Elizabeth Neel, The Female, at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

"But telling artworks from other things is not so simple a matter, even for native speakers, and these days one might not be aware he was on artistic terrain without an artistic theory to tell him so...." Philosophy of Art pg. 291