Small Worlds IV (Kleine Welten IV) from Small Worlds (Kleine Welten) by Wassily Kandinsky 1922. (Small Worlds) and Kandinsky’s appointment at the Bauhaus can thus be seen as a turning, – or maybe rather a self-realization – point for the rest of Kandinsky’s career, after which Kandinsky’s concerns with the spiritual were much more heavily reflected in his art, as can be seen in his theories on color, form, and his turn towards the geometric and the abstract.

As part of this chronicle, Kleine Welten IV, the fourth in the portfolio series, is a good representation of Kandinsky’s attempt in doing so, making use of the relationship between color, forms, and composition to translate his works of art into a spiritual domain.

The cosmic compositions of Kleine Welten IV and its references to water and nature can be connected to the utopian planning ideas of satellite cities and the garden city movement (with its anarchist ideals), possibly introduced to Kandinsky by the theories of Russian writer and anarchist Peter Kropotkin, who believed humans were happiest in small communities and who sought to restructure society in such a way.

For Kandinsky, the relationship between color, form, and humanity was the most important.

As a composite collection, too, Kleine Welten (Small Worlds) addresses the self-contained singular work and its participation in a compound, displaying a harmony between the singular and the collective; and even though many of the portfolio plates seem to oppose and contradict each other, they all form a harmonious whole. This balance, of earthly chaos and spiritual divine, can be seen as an attempt to translate art into a spiritual dimension for his audience; and to Kandinsky, this is what art was all about – transcending the souls of peoples by combining the language of color and line as a spiritual teacher of the world.

With a belief of each form having a color and a melody of its own, Kandinsky viewed himself as an artist merely replying to these, acting as “the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”

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"All of us is the United Śaddufat, which gathers people from different worlds under its wing with general idea. Śaddufy is an entity that experiences itself in the world with its creative, but not destructive deeds, for the blessing of humanity and all living beings. Śaddufy's live beyond politics, religions and races. Throughout their lives, they learn to perceive the randomness of the universe and to derive harmony from it. One of the few precepts followed by Śaddufy is «Everything is a sound». The Śaddufy has the ability to tame chaotic vibrations and sound waves and to bend and transmute them to his will and sharing them with others to bring universal harmony and balance."

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