The document discusses Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and his transition from representational to abstract painting. It provides quotes from Kandinsky about applying colors onto the canvas with intensity and everything starting from a dot. It also lists several of Kandinsky's abstract paintings from 1910 to 1939 that moved away from depicting objects to geometric shapes, lines, and colors.

1. Kandinsky
I applied colors onto the canvas with a
palette knife, and I made them sing
with all the intensity I could.
--Wassily Kandinsky

2. At first Kandinsky began to paint
things the way he saw them.

6. Accent in Pink,
1926

8. Composition VI (1913)

9. Composition-X (1939)

10. White

11. Painting with Green Center
1913

12. Composition VIII, 1923

13. Cossacks (Part of the Composition IV), 1910

15. Everything starts from a dot.
--Wassily Kandinsky

16. Squares with Concentric Circles,
1913