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WASSILY KANDINSKY Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and
art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, art theorist, and teacher. abstract art. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood
He is credited as being one of the pioneers of abstract art, and in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art School.
is known for his unique use of color and shape. He was heavily He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and
influenced by music, and many of his paintings are inspired by economics. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky achieved many
musical compositions. things in his lifetime - including degrees in law and economics.
“I liked Wassily Kandinsky’s clean dimensional drawings, very He came from a very influential family, one of his great
geometrical, architectural, with precise detail, and the balance of grandmothers was Princess Gantimurova, probably explaining
the composition and the line work is very important, he comes the “slight Mongolian trait in his features”. During the Russian
across as a perfectionist, not only in his work, but in his appearance Revolution (1917), which overthrew the Czar, the ruler of
and his success in everything he attempted. It was apparent that Russia, the artist held an important post at the Commissariat
he enjoyed the challenges of discovery, invention and innovation”. (government bureau) of Popular Culture and at the Academy
One of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. in Moscow. He organized twenty-two museums and became
After successful avant-garde exhibitions he founded the influential the director of the Museum of Pictorial Culture. In 1920 he was
Munich group Der Blaue Reiter (the Blue Rider) and began appointed professor at the University of Moscow. The following
completely abstract painting. The group was the first to combine year he founded the Academy of Arts and Sciences and became
both abstract and figurative artwork. His form evolved from fluid its vice president. At the end of that year, the Soviet attitude
and organic to geometric and finally to pictographic. toward art changed, and Kandinsky left Russia.
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