According to Kandinsky, a dull shape such as a circle should have a muted colour, like blue. A shape with intermediate interest like a square requires a transitional colour like red. A dynamic shape, like a triangle for example, deserves an lively, luminous, psychotic colour like yellow. It's interesting to see how the colour and shape of an object can be complimentary or contradictory to each other depending on such small factors. Kandisnky also has fine rules for when it comes to incorporating angles into his work.
Kandinsky views sharper angles as more aggressive and intense, linking closer to the colour yellow. As an angle becomes more open there is a shift in the colour through to red and eventually to black. Kandinsky didn't generate this understanding of colour, shape and angles on his own understanding solely. He also took into account his own experience of peoples reactions to his work.
In the collages I produce from here on I plan to pay a conscious effort to incorporate such rules into my own work, this will hopefully end up communicating as pure a meaning as possible into my final pieces.
