• They have a number of characteristics expressing this monumentality: impressively large size, conscious planning of composition and transcendence of...
  • 41K Followers, 25 Following, 872 Posts - Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) (@kandinskywassily) on Instagram: "600+ artworks (compositions...
  • This experience, as well as his study of the region's folk art (particularly the use of bright colours on a dark background), were reflected in much of his early work.
  • The art of Kandinsky may be studied by reading his own writing. In his book “On the Spiritual in Art”, Kandinsky puts forward four points to argue the...
  • After only three years of teaching, Kandinsky enrolled in a Munich art school to study with Anton Azbe, a Slovenian Realist whose forte was figure drawing.
  • In 1886 he began to study law and economics at the University of Moscow, but he continued to have unusual feelings about colour as he contemplated the...
  • Wassily Kandinsky took up the study of art in earnest at age 30, moving to Munich to study drawing and painting.