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Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
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The two last mentioned colours (orange and violet) are the fourth
and last pair of antitheses of the primitive colours. They stand
to each other in the same relation as the third antitheses--green
and red--i.e., as complementary colours (see Fig. 2).



FIGURE II



Second Pair of antitheses (physical appeal of complementary
C and D colours)

C. Red Green = Third antithesis
Movement of the spiritually extinguished
First antithesis


Motion within itself [CIRCLE] = Potentiality of motion
= Motionlessness

Red

Ex-and concentric movements are absent
In optical blend = Gray
In mechanical blend of white and black = Gray

D. Orange Violet = Fourth antithesis
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