Schwarzer Fleck (Black Spot) from Klange (Sounds)

In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries artists began to experiment with earlier printmaking techniques that had gradually fallen out of use. Vasily Kandinsky, working in Munich just after the turn of the century, became particularly interested in the woodcut. The simplification of design required by the woodcut technique moved Kandinsky towards an ever greater abstraction over the next few years, culminating in works like Black Spot.