What's that Mr Kandinsky?

With a few from the class we took ourselves along to the Kandinsky exebition. It was a chance to explore my appreciation and understanding of abstract art....I discovered I have neither.

Now Kandinsky was a switched on cat. Born in Russia in the 1860's - he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.

The display was in the Pompidou Centre - itself an abstract piece of art. What I could decipher from the works was that Kandinsky was exploring the relationship between colours and the three basic geometrical shapes (square, triangle and circle).

This was a relationship I later pondered amongst the leafy surrounds of the Jardin Luxemburg......