A Biography on Famous Russian Artist, Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia on December 4, 1866 and he was one of the first creators of the pure abstraction in modern painting. Wassily founded the Munich group of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) from 1911 to the 14th. The form of his style of painting were from fluid and organic to geometric and then to pictographic, an example is the Tempered Elan in 1944. I read that Kandinsky created his art from the music …

…center of his paintings. Many people believe that Kandinsky is showing the way "he frames the feelings and then the viewers become the "spectators". Wassily then went to Russia for a short period of time and he moved onto the geometric shapes. Kandinsky quoted that "Triangles represent the life of the spirit" Then later on in 1926, he painted only circles that were overlapping each other with different sizes, colors and textures against a black background.