Composition 1931

This is Theo van Doesburg's "Composition," a pastel piece, but its date is unknown. The pastel strokes create this soft, almost dreamy atmosphere. It’s like he's not just making marks, but conjuring a mood, a feeling of floating in some in-between space. Look at how the colors blend, the greens, blues, and yellows swirling together. It reminds me of early Kandinsky, before he went full abstraction, where you can still sense a landscape, but it's all dissolving into pure color and form. Check out the squiggly lines and how they give the work this sense of movement. It's like the whole thing is vibrating. You can almost see the artist's hand moving across the paper, each stroke adding to this delicate balance of chaos and order. It feels like a world in itself, like those early abstract works of Hilma af Klint. It's all about feeling, intuition, and letting the materials lead the way.