Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow on 4th December 1866 from a well-to-do family. This was a period of economic and cultural prosperity. He is considered the founder of abstract painting, and although he spent most of life in Germany and France, he always retained strong emotional ties to his homeland and its culture.In the 1920s and early 1930, Kandinsky taught at the renewed German school of art and design known as the Bauhaus. After the closing of the Bauhaus by the Nazis in 1933, he left Germany for Paris. In the years between the wars, Kandinsky's work became more geometric. Yet Kandinsky continued to seek
All the colours vary from light yellows to dark blues. The soul is a piano with many strings, and the artist is the hand that, by striking one particular key, causes the human soul to vibrate". "Colour is the medium by which one can affect the soul directly. He has been successful in using a lot of expressive lines and sharp curves. This is effective because there is more shape and form rather than detail. It is structured, with many different shapes. This picture is very subjective because the beauty of the world around him is clearly seen. Overall I feel his paintings are heavily influenced by colour. Kandinsky has a very unique painting technique, which changes with the sort of painting, which he is doing. It is a painting of the small Bavarian village.
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