Several Circles is an artwork where the artist focuses all his attention into this single geometric form, while deeply researching layout, composition and the relative position of each circle. The correspondence between color and form starts to gain more importance on his pieces, and this is just the first study that would lead into subsequential works that eventually became Kandinsky’s most recognized characteristic. The background is dark and even, which leads us to focus solely on the layout, composition, and color of the circles. Despite looking randomly distributed around the squared canvas, the arrangement has an order and balance.

The main element is a dark blue circle that occupies the major area of the center. Inside it, there is a darker one. These central shapes are involved in some sort of white contour that bleeds into the rest of the painting as if they had a halo around them. There are smaller shapes in vibrant colors overlapping these two main circles in the middle. The overlapping shapes have different densities and masses, an effect that was created by coloring the intersection between them. Apart from this larger mass of overlapping circles, there are few colorful smaller dots around the corners of the canvas. As the shapes step away from the center, they get smaller and more vibrant in color.

There are infinite probabilities of interpretation, and that is the most authentic meaning of the pure abstract represented here. At the time he made this piece, Kandinsky was obsessed with scientific papers and encyclopedias. It is possible to make a correlation between the circles observed in this piece and the behavior of several organic and biological matters. This might explain both the choice of the geometric shape and also the way they were distributed around the canvas.