Along with Mondrian and Malevich, he is known as a pioneer of abstract art, but he is undoubtedly the most famous

Vasily Kandinsky (Василий Кандинский Wassily Kandinsky) was a famous French painter and art theorist.

Born on December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia, to a wealthy intellectual family.

Kandinsky, along with Mondrian and Malevich, is considered a pioneer of abstract art, but there is no doubt that Kandinsky is the most famous.

Vasily Kandinsky is one of the great figures of modern art and the founder of the theory and practice of modern abstract art.

Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, graduating from the Glegkov Art School in Odessa, after which he entered Moscow University to study law and economics.

In 1896, at the age of 30, Kandinsky came to Munich, Germany, where he first studied in private schools and was later admitted to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under the symbolist artist Franz von Stoker. After graduation, he stayed in Germany and became one of the important members of German expressionism.

Between 1908 and 1909, Kandinsky created a style of painting that was novel both in brushwork and color. He began to think about abstraction. Although figures or trees could still be identified, Kandinsky gradually freed himself from sketching reality.

After the victory of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, Kandinsky returned to China for a short time to participate in the early experimental art movement in Russia, and left Russia for Berlin because his abstract painting style and his theories contradicted the socialist realism advocated by the Soviet government.

From 1922 to 1925 , Kandinsky taught mural creation and analysis of painting principles at the Bauhaus Academy. He uses basic shapes – triangles, squares, circles, and with the help of rulers, compasses and other tools, his paintings take on a rigorously geometric style.

In 1926, he published his theoretical work From Points and Lines to Surfaces. In this work, Kandinsky further imagined purely abstract factors, saying that horizontal lines indicate cold, vertical lines indicate heat, and so on. In 1933, Kandinsky settled in Neuilly, France.

On December 13, 1944, Vasily Kandinsky died on the banks of the Seine at the age of 78.

He once explained his painting philosophy as follows:

"There is an art that no longer reproduces the material world, but rather creates a visual spiritual resonance with the viewer through the harmony and dissonance of abstract geometric shapes and the power of color."