Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (, Vasiliy Vasil ’ yevich Kandinskiy, ; – 13 December 1944 ) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist.

* " Kandinsky calls abstract the content that painting must express, that ’ s to say this invisible life that we are.

He had achieved some fame by this time and exhibited with Kandinsky ’ s Der Blaue Reiter group in 1912, supporting himself through his art.

In the artistic field, various artists such as Kandinsky cite many magnetic authors in their books ’ references with regards to their aptitude in tapping unconscious resources.

Just before the onset of the First World War in 1914, Gabo discovered contemporary art, by reading Kandinsky ’ s Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which asserted the principles of abstract art.

Orphic painters cited analogies with music in their titles ; for example, Kupka ’ s Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors ( 1912 ) and Francis Picabia ’ s abstract composition Dance at the Source ( 1912 ) and Wassily Kandinsky ’ s Über das Geistige in der Kunst ( 1912 ).

Henry dedicated a book entitled Voir l ’ invisible ( Seeing the Invisible ) to Kandinsky, in which he describes his work in laudatory terms.

* Voir l ’ invisible, sur Kandinsky ( 1988 )

Soon after she began taking classes, Münter became attached to the Phalanx School ’ s director, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

Kandinsky was the first teacher that had actually taken Münter ’ s painting abilities seriously.

Kandinsky ’ s and Münter ’ s professional and personal relationship lasted for about twelve years.

Münter and Kandinsky helped establish the Munich-based avant-garde group called the New Artists ’ Association ( Neue Kunstlervereinigung ).

After Munster and Kandinsky ’ s relationship ended, there was a period of inactivity in her art career.

During Kandinsky ’ s time in Moscow, he divorced his first wife, ( his cousin, Anja Chimiakin ), and instead of marrying Münter, he decided to marry another woman he had met in Russia.

In 1930, they visited Vasily Kandinsky ’ s studio in Dessau, Germany, and Guggenheim began to purchase Kandinsky's work.

Visitors can also become acquainted with two compositions by Kandinsky ’ s friend Vladimir Izdebski, who is known for his “ Salons de Paris ” series after the revolution of 1917, and also a unique collection by the famous Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani.

The last, run by the artist ’ s widow, enjoyed the reputation of being one of the most interesting galleries on the left bank of the Seine: it sponsored, among other things, the first exhibition by members of the Paris Committee, known as the Kapists, several one-man shows of Polish and Jewish artists active in France, and Kandinsky ’ s first Parisian one-man show.

Theosophical concepts can be seen in the work of Sergei Bulgakov ( 1877-1945 ), Nikolai Berdyaev ( 1874-1945 ), Leopold Ziegler ( 1881-1958 ), Valentin Tomberg ( 1901-1973 ), Auguste-Edouard Chauvet ( 1885-1955 ), Wassily Kandinsky ( 1866-1944 ), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ( 1888-1975 ) and Henry Corbin ( 1903-1978 ).

Repeating this word like a mantra, Kandinsky painted and completed the monumental work in a three-day span.

So, the painted work is accompanied with a group of texts that at the same time clarify his work and make Kandinsky one of the main theorists of art.

The ideas of German expressionism influenced the work of American artist Marsden Hartley, who met Kandinsky in Germany in 1913.

This style of hard-edge geometric abstraction recalls the earlier work of Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Theo van Doesburg, and Piet Mondrian.

" The work of Ray Harryhausen, Ladislas Starevich, Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, Jan Lenica, Francis Bacon and Wassily Kandinsky influenced the filmmakers.

His uncle was the abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky, about whose work he would write an influential essay in 1936.

Gleizes ' iconography ( as of Delaunay, Le Fauconnier and Léger ) helps to explain why there is no period in his work corresponding to analytic Cubism, and how it was possible for Gleizes to become an abstract painter, more theoretically in tune with Kandinsky and Mondrian than Picasso and Braque, who remained associated with visual reality.

He was fired because his work was deemed unsuitable by the Nazis, with the result that several works were in the infamous exhibition of " degenerate art " in Munich in 1937, along with that of other Bauhaus artists, among them Herbert Bayer, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer and Lothar Schreyer.

" The phenomenon of ' hearing ' a color or the pairing of two or more senses -- synesthesia -- was also central to the work of Wassily Kandinsky, who was developing his own synesthetic paintings, or ' compositions ', in Europe around the same time.

Wassily Kandinsky, one of the forerunners of pure non-objective painting, was among the first modern artists to explore this geometric approach in his abstract work.

Wassily Kandinsky has discussed this connection between music and painting, as well as how the practice of classical composition had influenced his work, at length in his seminal essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

But once tension started to grip Europe, and condemnation of the modernist movements began to rise, she had all of the art work done by her, Kandinsky, and the other members of the Blaue Reiter transported to her house, where she hid them.

The work originated in Goethe's occupation with painting and mainly exerted an influence onto the arts ( Philipp Otto Runge, J. M. W. Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, Wassily Kandinsky ).

After his introduction to Western culture, Rinpoche became increasingly interested in modern art, particularly abstract painting and the work of Picasso and Kandinsky.

Kandinsky had received some notice earlier in Britain, however ; in 1910, he participated in the Allied Artists ' Exhibition ( organised by Frank Rutter ) at London's Royal Albert Hall.

The Cocteau exhibition was followed by exhibitions on Wassily Kandinsky ( his first one-man-show in England ), Yves Tanguy, Wolfgang Paalen and several other well-known and some lesser-known artists.

Given that many of these avant-garde artists were born or grew up in what is present day Belarus and Ukraine ( including Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Ekster, Vladimir Tatlin, Wassily Kandinsky, David Burliuk, Alexander Archipenko ), some sources also talk about Ukrainian avant-garde.

Some of the notable artists are Picasso, Dalí, Magritte, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), eleven works by Pollock, Braque, Duchamp, Léger, Severini, Picabia, de Chirico, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Miró, Giacometti, Klee, Gorky, Calder, Max Ernst and Peggy Guggenheim's daughter, Pegeen Vail Guggenheim.

Among the artists represented in the collection are, from Italy, De Chirico ( The Red Tower, The Nostalgia of the Poet ) and Severini ( Sea Dancer ); from France, Braque ( The Clarinet ), Duchamp ( Sad Young Man on a Train ), Léger ( Study of a Nude ), Picabia ( Very Rare Picture on Earth ); from Spain, Dalí ( Birth of Liquid Desires ), Miró ( Seated Woman II ) and Picasso ( The Poet, On the Beach ); from other European countries, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), Max Ernst ( The Kiss, Attirement of the Bride ), Giacometti ( Woman with Her Throat Cut, Woman Walking ), Gorky ( Untitled ), Kandinsky ( Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, White Cross ), Klee ( Magic Garden ), Magritte ( Empire of Light ) and Mondrian ( Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938, Composition with Red 1939 ); and from the US, Calder ( Arc of Petals ) and Pollock ( The Moon Woman, Alchemy ).

In Modern Art Kandinsky and Mondriaan are both famous and both were influenced by theosophy.

Many styles of modern art, including Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Abstract art, Surrealism are represented with works by Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Le Douanier Rousseau, Paul Signac, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Emil Nolde, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Marc Chagall, Natalia Gontcharova, Mikhail Larionov, Alexander Rodchenko, Kupka, Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg, Paul Klee, Vassili Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Jacques Villon, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Rouault, Balthus, Max Beckmann, Brancusi and Calder, Soutine, Marc Chagall, Modigliani, Kees Van Dongen, Jean Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Magritte, Max Ernst, Miro, Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, Nicolas de Staël, André Masson, Tanguy, Jean Tinguely, Yves Klein, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon.

Kandinsky learned from a variety of sources while in Moscow.

During the studies Kandinsky made in preparation for Composition IV, he became exhausted while working on a painting and went for a walk.

In 1910, through his friendship with Franz Marc, Macke met Kandinsky and for a while shared the non-objective aesthetic and the mystical and symbolic interests of Der Blaue Reiter.

Kandinsky was married for fifteen years while he was in a relationship with Münter.