Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian abstract artist who gave up a career teaching law and economics to enroll in the Munich Academy to study art. He was both fascinated and stimulated by color as a child and those feelings continued as he grew older. He thought painting was similar to composing music and would often use musical terms like “compositions” to describe his art. Believing creation is a geometrical progression, he incorporated circles, triangles, and squares into his artwork.
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Featuring a diverse range of artists, Modern Art Explorer takes young readers on an undercover adventure to discover the stories behind famous modern artworks.
One of the foremost artistic innovators of abstraction in the twentieth century, Vasily Kandinsky sought to liberate painting from its ties to the natural world and promote the spiritual in art. This richly illustrated publication looks at Kandinsky anew, through a critical lens, reframing our understanding of this vital figure of European modernism, who was also a prolific aesthetic theorist and writer.
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