Kandinsky's main interest was creating expressist art with the pure elements: color and shape. In "Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art," Kandinsky writes about the influence of science in his art: "A ...

With these ideas, Kandinsky helped to create a whole new type of painting, called abstract art. But all those other painters, who'd spent years learning how to draw horses and castles, felt like ...

When he saw a painting by Claude Monet and heard music by the composer Richard Wagner, Kandinsky was inspired to create art. He moved to Germany to learn more about art. When he listened to music ...

Between 1911 and 1914 Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc (two of the founding members of The Blue Rider artists’ group in Munich) believed that they were working together to create a new art for a ...