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Kandinsky's paintings from this period are large, expressive coloured masses evaluated independently from forms and lines ; these serve no longer to delimit them, but overlap freely to form paintings of extraordinary force.

Music was important to the birth of abstract art, since music is abstract by nature — it does not try to represent the exterior world, but expresses in an immediate way the inner feelings of the soul.

Kandinsky sometimes used musical terms to identify his works ; he called his most spontaneous paintings " improvisations " and described more elaborate works as " compositions.