Wassily Kandinsky

• Born: December 04, 1866, Moscow, Russia

• Died: December 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

• Russian artist from the blue rider movement, Bauhaus, and abstract art
movements.

• Styles: impressionism, modern art, abstract art, spiritual abstraction,

geometric abstraction.
• Prominent influence on his works: the influence of color
• Kandinsky emphasized the process of creation and the value of pure
painting, as opposed to subject matter. He firmly believed color and form
possessed affective powers independent of the object.
• At the Bauhaus in Dessau, he taught abstract form elements and analytical
drawing in the preliminary course. he was the head of painting, he
directed the free painting workshop and free painting class.
impressionism

- The early works of Kandinsky were mostly

Impressionistic landscapes and woodblock
prints.
- The Blue Rider is the most famous painting of
Kandinsky in the Impressionistic approach.
- The techniques of making the user participate
in creating the painting through imagination
and using color for representation would later
be used by Kandinsky in his abstract works.

The blue rider(1903)

Abstract

Composition X (1939) first abstract watercolor (1910)

Abstract

Farbstudie Quadrate (1913) Composition VII (1913)

Geometric Abstraction

On White II (1923) Several Circles (1926) Yellow-Red-Blue

(1925)
Geometric Abstraction

Upward (1929) Composition VIII (1923)