Wassily (Vasily) Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866 in Moscow the capital of Russia. Kandinsky had a wealthy father who was a tea merchant and mother therefore he had a wealthy childhood. Kandinsky most loved hobby was art and music. Kandinsky spent his childhood years in a thriving city known as Odessa, which was populated with Mediterranean, Western Europeans and many other ethnic groups. Kandinsky family structure was very divers. Kandinsky’s mother was a Muscovite, his father was considered Mongolian and finally his grandmother was from Baltic. Kandinsky father and mother divorced when Kandinsky was very young, Kandinsky was left with his father and sometimes taken care by an aunt. Kandinsky had to opportunity to have a father who encouraged …show more content…
Kandinsky’s career after he completed college was very successful law education teacher in the ¬University of Moscow. Kandinsky first marriage was with his cousin which lasted nineteen years. Finally Kandinsky started having interest in art during an ethnographic research trip in Vologda. Kandinsky even declined a teaching position so he could study art with Anton Azbe at Munich and at Kunstakademie with Franz von Stuck. Kandinsky and other co-founded “Phalanx” which was an artist’s association which opposed traditional art institutions. Kandinsky taught in the art class of Phalanx when it expanded. In 1922 Kandinsky accepted a teaching position at Bauhaus, which was Germany's creative center for architecture and design. Kandinsky was an instructor at the Bauhaus until 1933, when the National Socialist Government made the school close. Kandinsky then moved to Paris where he set up a studio and dedicated his time to painting. Kandinsky¬¬ died in …show more content…
Abstract art uses shapes, color, forms and gestural marks to make an affect. “The word abstract strictly speaking means to separate or Withdraw something from something else (tate.org)”. Abstract art is applied to objects, figures, or landscapes. Then the forms tend to be either disarranged or simplified. Some examples would be fauvist or cubist artists Cubist and fauvist. Also abstract art can be viewed as geometric shapes or gestural marks. These don’t have sources. Artist prefer to call it concrete art or non-objective art. Now for Kandinsky abstract art is to exploit color and form to engage sight, sound, and emotions of the public. Kandinsky did not believe in the total copy of natural art because he felt that it interfered with the process of inspirational expression. Kandinsky. Kandinsky’s ideas encouraged many generations of artists, from his students at the Bauhaus to the Abstract Expressionists after World War II. Abstracrt painting can be painted, drawn or even in