Wassily Kandinsky Research Paper

Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866, in Moscow, Russia, to musical parents Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant. When Kandinsky was about 5 years old, his parents divorced, and he moved to Odessa to live with an aunt, where he learned to play the piano and cello in grammar school, as well as study drawing with a coach. Even as a boy he had an intimate experience with art; the works of his childhood reveal rather specific color combinations, infused by his perception that "each color lives by its mysterious life.At first he followed his family’s wishes to go into law, entering the University of Moscow in 1886. He graduated with honors, but he earned a fieldwork scholarship that entailed a visit to the Vologda province to study their traditional criminal law and religion. The folk art there and the spiritual study seemed to stir dormant longings. Still, Kandinsky married his cousin, Anna Chimyakina, in 1892 and took up a position on the Moscow Faculty of Law, …show more content…
Wassily Kandinsky’s wives were – Anna Chimyakina, his first wife who was also his cousin, he lived with her for 10 years; Gabriele, she was not his wife, but they were engaged, and the second wife Nina, with her he lived for 28 years. Kandinsky had no children.An early champion of abstract painting, Wassily Kandinsky is known for his lyrical style and innovative theories on nonfigurative art. In his 1910 treatise Concerning the Spiritual In Art, Kandinsky made famous his belief that abstract colors and forms can be used to express the “inner life” of the artist. His most famous work is Composition VII. it shows his rejection of pictorial representation through a swirling hurricane of colors and shape. It exemplifies kandinsky's belief the paintings could evoke sounds the way music called to mind certain colors and