The Story
Wassily Kandinsky revolutionized the art of our century with his ideas of a new pictorial language. For as the founder of abstract painting Kandinsky released from its traditional duty namely, to provide a copy of the visible world. Although, in the early years of the twentieth century, there were other artists similarly experimenting with the dissolution of the object and the promotion of color and form as a men]ans of expression in there own right, Kandinsky was the most logical and consistent in his pursuit of abstract means of expression. He made it his lifes work to carry painting up to and over the threshold of abstraction, whereby his artistic activities were always accompanied by theoretical reflections and insights.
Description
Wassily Kandinsky revolutionized the art of our century with his ideas of a new pictorial language. For as the founder of abstract painting Kandinsky released from its traditional duty namely, to provide a copy of the visible world. Although, in the early years of the twentieth century, there were other artists similarly experimenting with the dissolution of the object and the promotion of color and form as a men]ans of expression in there own right, Kandinsky was the most logical and consistent in his pursuit of abstract means of expression. He made it his lifes work to carry painting up to and over the threshold of abstraction, whereby his artistic activities were always accompanied by theoretical reflections and insights.
