1. Wassily Kandinsky an Abstract Expressionist By:Arlette Apelian-Kiledjian May 26, 2010
2. Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow (1866-1944) He learned cello and piano from young age. He studied law and economics and got his PHD. He wrote concerning the spiritual in art. He taught art at Bauhaus in Weimar Germany. He was part of a group named The Blue Rider. He married twice and Gabriele Munter, a Painter, was his big love. Kandinsky lived his life fully and he was a handsome man.
8. “Central to his career as a theorist, Kandinsky began to investigate ‘form’ in art form created from inner necessity”. Dr. Janet Mckenzie Painting with Three Spots
9. “Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every human body”. Kandinsky Improvisation 12 (Rider)
13. “The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo”. Kandinsky Black and Violet
14. “The major exhibition on ‘ The Path to Abstraction’ was held in Britain, it met with mix of praise and hostility, ridicule of theosophy and simplified reliance on the theory of synthanaesia, the ability to see music”. Dr. Janet Mckenzie Yellow-Red-Blue
15. “Art is a power that should be aimed at developing the soul. If art does not do this job, the abyss that separates us from God is left Without a bridge”. Paulo Coelho, writer Dominant Curve
16. “I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the ‘subject’ out of my paintings, but every ‘object’ as well”. Kandinsky Two Green Points
23. “He expresses drama, destruction, complex relationships, candid beauty, courage and redemption through exquisite orchestrations of colour and line, like no other artist before or since”.Dr. Janet Mckenzie Quiet Harmony
24. “The more frightening the world becomes…the more art becomes abstract”. Kandinsky Several Circles
25. “Some day, Kandinsky will be the best known and best loved of men”. Diego Rivera, painter In The Bright Oval
26. References and sources Studio International, Dr. Janet Mckenzie (deputy editor) sited at 5/ 22/2010 Wasilly Kandinsky- painting 1896-1944. sited at 5/22/2010 Paulo Coelho’s Blog sited at 5/23/2010 Kandinsky by Ulrike Becks-Malorny The Painter’s keys quotes by kandinsky 5/24/2010 Music Pixar’s up soundtrac