Who is Kandinsky?

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский, first name pronounced as [vassi:li]) (December 16 [O.S. December 4] 1866 – December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.

Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. As a young man he enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Ažbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

Autumn in Bavaria
1908; Oil on cardboard, 33x45cm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris


Improvisation 7
1910 (180 Kb); Oil on canvas, 131 x 97 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Composition IV
1911 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, 159.5 x 250.5 cm (62 7/8 x 98 5/8 in); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Dusseldorf


Composition V
1911 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, 190 x 275 cm (6' 3 7/8" x 9' 1/4"); Private collection


Black Spot I
1912 (200 Kb); Oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm; The Hermitage, St. Petersburg


Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)

Ravine Improvisation
1914 (110 Kb); Oil on cardboard, 110 x 110 cm; Stadtische, Munich
Ravine is so coarse that, intuitively, I feel the title is wrong. It is the one given, however. And of course, the chaotic bric-à-brac image of a ravine does mesh with the Kandinsky spirit--so, away with the intuitive!''
-- Sandro Pasquali


Composition VI
1913 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, 195 x 300 cm (6' 4 3/4" x 10'); Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg


Composition VII
1913 (200 Kb); Oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm (6' 6 3/4" x 9' 11 1/8"); Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Small Pleasures

Fragment 2 for Composition VII
1913 (180 Kb); Oil on canvas, 87.5 x 99.5 cm (34 1/2 x 39 1/4 in); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY


On White II
1923; Oil on canvas, 105 x 98cm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris


Composition VIII
1923 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 140 x 201 cm (55 1/8 x 79 1/8 in); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York


Black and Violet
1923


Contrasting Sounds
1924; Oil on cardboard, 70x49.5cm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris


Yellow, Red, Blue
1925; Oil on canvas, 127x200cm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris


Composition IX
1936 (120 Kb); Oil on canvas, 113.5 x 195 cm (44 5/8 x 76 3/4 in); Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris


Composition X
1939 (160 Kb); Oil on canvas, 130 x 195 cm (51 1/8 x 76 3/4 in); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf

Oh! I need to do a art project about him. From now on, I just know that he is good at drawing. He draw something called abstract（抽象）. Hope I can help you!!!!!