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Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg finished »Composition VIII (The Cow)« in 1918. About this painting, not only the result is interesting but also the process of creation (which you can follow by clicking). When we look at a painting in a museum we usually see the end of a process. But is art just the outcome or also the process? MoMA currently has a great exhibition about the process of *inventing abstraction* which shows not only this process of van Doesburg composing a cow but also the big process of humans painting and performing other creative acts interacting which each others and percieving theirselves and others works making the invention emerge. ![Composition VIII (The Cow)][1] ![Composition (The Cow) ][2] ![Composition (The Cow) ][3] ![Composition (The Cow) ][4] ![Composition (The Cow) ][5] ![Composition (The Cow) ][6] [1]: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/371/w500h420/CRI_242371.jpg [2]: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/971/w500h420/CRI_243971.jpg [3]: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/855/w500h420/CRI_103855.jpg [4]: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/221/w500h420/CRI_223221.jpg [5]: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/973/w500h420/CRI_243973.jpg [6]: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/709/w500h420/CRI_67709.jpg