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7- Detail of fig. i.<br />
8. Detail of fig. 5.<br />
Like his grcat predecessor, Kandinsky confronted the viewer in the first instance<br />
with a composition compietely filled with abstract patterns, colours<br />
and lines that overlap or clash with each other. AJthough depth is suggested,<br />
it seems impossible to jndge the discance between the different<br />
forms. Kandinsky's Improvisation Deluge from 1913 {fig. 6) is virtually a<br />
colour translation of Leonardo's drawings of the deluge (fig. 2). It is as if in<br />
the lighter parts of Composition VI (fig. i) hè had followed Leonardo's advicc<br />
to depict mist and to make the air less dark at places where the sun's<br />
KAND<strong>IN</strong>SKY S COMl'LETION OP LEONARDO S DEIUGE 465
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