100 Great Artists

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WASSILY KANDiNSKY

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b, firmly hd;"',d !ba' ar' _Jd bridy rb, rIa",,,,1 and ,b, rpiri"",1 "",ilk. Marr

m<d in bank a' J"n/UJI in 1916, O"'"f biJlilJl "...-h, Fighting h)(m<, m"'~f

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Oer Shu" Reiter almilrl",and .xbibitiom in 1911 and 1912, Tb. profi",d d"i,..

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OSsil}' K~ndinsk}' could hear

colourS. T his condition _ known

OS sJTI.~"hc<ia -,..os keY''' hisar~

and he c,'en named SOme of his p.intings

'in~)J("'is:ltions'. 'l}'riCiI' and 'coml""itions' os

thoub'" they were l,;ettS of music, K"'(~rbk)'s

pionttring (J.:,,,lolw,,cnt of. hstr.<1 p.inting

1,,,.,llthl his n",,1 to exp.-ess colours .nd ~"'ns OS

if theJ.· wen:: phJtl<,,1 fr()011 the "II"e air thmugh

which «JUll<1 w'l'C< ",,,,,I. Hc a'pin:.-o:l to 'pun::

I"'inting' th., ""ul.1 bring"'" ""'wer tn the <:Imr::

<.'In(";(lIl" thru;h(~d os I"tming nJ a S}11lIhlll}'

'C(~()ur is the kL'}'. Thee}" is the halluner:rn.:: soul

is the piano with its m.n}' ch<lflls, The an"t " "'"

hand th.~ 1»' nHJthing th" ()( thlt key. setS the «>uI

'ilnting 3lJn" ",.ic:llly.'

Kandinsky ,,'OS thirty before he began to

p.int .nd }" t I ... ".me (lIle of the mo.t ()(iginal

.nd inn""nti.1 aniSlS of the tw<:nti<1h ttnrury.

In 1901 he 1,,1 an a,.,nt_pdt nl<,,"n"'nt in

,\lunich CiDed I'hal.nx. lI<lth a schml .nd.

«"'i<~y. it .in",d ~" fn::e(~"" fr,,,,, • n ",,"(kIllY_

domin. ",d art wo.-Id.

K.ndinsky h.d • long_ten" rdationship

with 'lilt of the Ph.l.nx studmts. G.I)(icle

,\lunter, whose "ision and "-'I",rimen"'tion

innuenttd hi. style dramatically. Up to the

oud"''''k of ,..'lr in 1914. whm K.ndin,ky h.d

to leal'e Germ.ny. ,\lunter ''"is prc<ent .,

crucialmon",nlS in his Can::<'I': his firSt .b"rl<1

I",inting, and the ~)unding of the Express;lIni"

iNt-81"", R.ju,. (lIIue Ride,) group with F rlnz

M.re (1880--1916), She led him to .n

appr",i.,ion of child .n. which K.ndinsky

beli<~'<,<1 offer"l. (k:<" >I,;,;tual unde"'t:tnding

through which all hun13nkind might gmw.