Artist Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

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This paper explains that Vassily Kandinsky's work is often chaotic and formless; however, they are somehow pleasing to the eye as seen in paintings such as "Landscape Near Murnau with Locomotive" (1909), "Black Lines No. 189" (1913) and "Little Pleasures" (1913). The author points out that Kandinsky believed the purpose of painting was to prepare people to think and see in terms of immaterial form rather than perceived objects like apples and nudes. The paper concludes that Vassily Kandinsky, the founder of abstract expressionism, was unique in his successful endeavors to juxtapose color, light, landscape, music, spirituality, nature and other essences of life into his artistic works.

Table of Contents
Introduction and Thesis Statement
Personal Feelings about Kandinsky's work
Biography of Kandinsky
Kandinsky's German Expressionism
The Blau Reiter (Blue Rider) Movement
The Influence of Theosophy on Kandinsky
Kandinsky's Color Theory
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Typically, German Expressionists depicted aspects of real life as they saw it, not just abstraction and spirituality. Also, they painted not so much within a vacuum of pure art but rather to artistically express diverse influences on art and life of nature, spirituality, music, architecture and sculpture. Within that spirit, Kandinsky and Franz Marc co-founded the Blue Rider (Blaue Reiter) movement (1911-14), and along with it, their Blaue Reiter Almanac (1911) and a Blaue Reiter Exhibition (1912), all so-named because of Kandinsky's fondness for two canvases he painted years earlier."

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