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The convergence of sharp-angled, geometric shapes in bold colours creates a composition of dynamism in this work. Shapes from above converge on the main “figure” of the red triangle which is simultaneously pierced from below. It is named after the moon-like formation, Acid Green Crescent. Painted in 1927, it marks the period when Wassily Kandinsky was teaching at the Bauhaus school, whose dedication to formal geometry and abstraction is evident in this work. It was confiscated as degenerate art by the Nazis and placed in Entartete Kunst, their infamous exhibition of 1937, displaying art that was considered too modern, Jewish or generally ‘un-German’. Today, it reminds us to beware a world of censorship.