<span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Van Doesburg used a compass and a ruler to create this composition of circles and triangles. He didn’t want to make a completely abstract representation: in 1914, he still believed an image should be recognizable. Two years later, in the middle of World War I, he exhibited his painting. In the catalogue, he commented: 'Reckoning: an emotion, which takes a visible form in colour and line is a painting'. [text 2023]</span>
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Van Doesburg used a compass and a ruler to create this composition of circles and triangles. He didn’t want to make a completely abstract representation: in 1914, he still believed an image should be recognizable. Two years later, in the middle of World War I, he exhibited his painting. In the catalogue, he commented: 'Reckoning: an emotion, which takes a visible form in colour and line is a painting'. [text 2023]