Original title: Schaukeln

Oil paint on board

Dimensions: 705 × 502 mm

Collection Tate

Acquisition: Purchased 1979

"The title ‘Swinging’ captures this work’s sense of movement. Kandinsky believed painting should aim to be as abstract as music. He worked to create art that was free from all references to the material world. For him, colour in particular was essential for liberating art from representing the visible world."

Original title: Bicho-Maquete (320)

Aluminium

Dimensions: Unconfirmed

Collection Tate

Acquisition: Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery 2012
"This work is an aluminium sculpture by the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. It is an articulated work formed from twelve identical triangular pieces of aluminium sheeting along with a further six pieces cut into quarter-circle-shaped segments, all of which are hinged together with steel pins. It can be moved by hand into a variety of configurations and thus has no fixed shape or dimensions, and as such it appears as a combination of crisp geometric lines and curved edges, which change in their interrelationships when its hinges are manipulated."

"Albers was fascinated by the nature of visual perception. These interlocking shapes play with ideas of perspective, destabilising our sense of what is foreground and what is background. The work also shows his growing interest in colour, which he explored during his later years in United States. He had taught at the Bauhaus School of Art and design in Germany until it was closed by Nazis in 1993. Albers brought its vision of connecting art and everyday life with him to a new teaching post Black Mountain College in North Carolina."