Wassily Kandinsky: 1866-1944: a Revolution in Painting

From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work.As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky’ s interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving.

He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and left a legacy not only of dazzling visual work, but also of highly influential treatises such as Concerning the Spiritual in Art.