Kandinsky was a Russian painter and artist that is oftentimes viewed as the catalyst for abstract art. He was inspired by color symbolism, psychology, and sound. His older paintings were more impressionistic, while his return to Russia and Germany in the 1920s began the era of his most iconic work which was radically expressionistic — which you can see in the photos of some of his work I have attached. He started with biomorphic shapes and leaned into non-geometric lines to reflect sounds around his world.
His style is very on-par with the activities/studies we’ve done so far in class, with the exception that his works were all done by-hand through paint while we’ve worked mostly digitally.
Foundations of Art, Design, + Digital Culture 