The father of abstract art

1. Wassily Kandinksy
Moscow Born Abstract Artist

2. Wassily Kandinsky- born in 1866
• Had a love of music and art from a young age
• Quit his job as a law professor to become a painter after seeing an
Opera
• Studied at an Art Academy in Germany
• His teachers thought the colors he used were too bright
• His early paintings were colorful landscapes

3. Early Works
Murnau. A Village Street
1908
Winter Lanscape 1909

4. First Artist to paint Abstract Art in 1910
Untitled (first abstract watercolor)
1910
Cossacks 1910

5. Color Study. Squares with Concentric Circles
1913
• One of his most famous
paintings, not actually meant to
be a painting
• This was done to see how colors
are perceived next to each other,
meant to help him in his
paintings
• Kandinsky was a Synaesthete -he
could ‘hear colors’ and ‘see
sounds.’

6. Color and Line
• Kandisnky believed you
could communicate
spiritual and emotional
ideas through color
and line
Composition VII, 1913

7. • Moscow. Red Square 1916

8. Blue Segment
1921

9. Studying shape,
color and space
Several Circles
1926

10. Composition IX 1936

11. Later Works
Sky Blue 1940
Last Watercolor 1944