Wassily Kandinsky - The Great Art Theorist

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow on the 4th of December 1866. He was an art theorist and Russian painter and is recognised as one of the first artists to paint modern abstract works. The young Kandinsky spent his early childhood in Russia before enrolling at the University of Moscow where his chosen subjects were law and economics. Kandinsky was very successful in his profession and was offered a professorship by the University of Dorpat. Kandinsky enjoyed more success as a teacher and wrote extensively on spirituality; a subject that remained of interest and influence to him for the rest of his life.

Kandinsky was thirty years of age when he started painting studies which included the basics of anatomy, sketching and life drawings. As a child Kandinsky had been fascinated and unusually stimulated by color and this fascination with psychology and color symbolism continued to develop as he grew. Eventually Kandinsky’s talents surpassed the constraints of art school and he began to develop and explore his own ideas for paintings. He said, 'I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could...'

In 1896 Kandinsky travelled to Munich where he studied initially at the private school of Anton Azbe and later at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. After World War One started in 1914 Kandinsky went back to Moscow where he was unsympathetic to the official theories on art - in 1921 he returned to Germany where he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture until it was closed down in 1933 by the Nazis. He became a French citizen in 1939 and spent the rest of his life in France.

Kandinsky was an accomplished musician and once said that, ‘Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, and the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.’ He also claimed that when he saw colors he heard music. Kandinsky's reputation was firmly established in the USA where he exhibited his numerous artworks. This was to lead to a meeting with Solomon Guggenheim, who became one of his most enthusiastic supporters.

When Kandinsky settled in Neuilly near Paris he continued to paint. These later painting would create much controversy and he became out of favor with many of the Patriarchs of Paris’ artistic community. Yet, younger artists were inspired and admired by Kandinsky’s works. In fact his studio in Neuilly was often visited by Sophie Tauber, Magnelli Arp and Miro. Kandinsky carried on painting right up to his death in June 1944. It was only then that he gained the recognition for his unrelenting quest throughout his life for new forms which carried him to the very extremes of Geometric abstraction which provides us today with an unparalleled collection of abstract art.

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