Un Ki Liu (Woong Ki Ryu) came up with an Abstraction chair, inspired by the work of Wassily Kandinsky.

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“Instead of thinking of the chair as a piece of furniture, I wanted to express the essence of the chair emotionally. This can only be done with abstraction, says Un Ki Liu. “I used the same approach that allowed Kandinsky to renounce realistic forms and colors, creating images that expressed his feelings.”

V.V. Kandinsky. Sketch. 1920. Paper, watercolor, ink, brush. Yaroslavl Art Museum.

Abstraction chair - student project. Liu - a student of the South Korean University Hongik, inspired by the abstract art of Wassily Kandinsky, chose “Composition VIII” as the basis for the look of a chair.

Wassily Kandinsky, "Composition VIII". 1926. One of the first paintings bought by Solomon Guggenheim for his extensive collection.

Kandinsky considered “Composition VIII” as one of the most important pictures in his work — the optimal expression of his theory about the emotional properties of color, line, and form. In the picture the artist goes from color to form, he creates a composition that is the main actor. In the period of work on the picture Kandinsky taught at Bauhaus and worked on the book "Point and Line on Plane" (1926). It was the so-called “cold period,” whose works are marked by scientific logic and rationalism.