Russia, Painter December 6, 1866 – December, 13, 1944.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, tr. Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky) (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.
Also known as University Teacher, Visual Artist, Art Theorist, Teacher, Lawyer
At that time c. 1904 – 1905 I tried, by means of lines and by distribution of mottled points of colours in his tempera painting on paper: 'Russian Beauty in a Landscape', 1905 to express the musical spirit of Russia. Other pictures of that period reflected the contradictions and later the eccentricities of Russia.
Paris 1933 - 1944 with its wonderful (intense soft) light had relaxed my palette - there were other colors, other entirely new forms, and some that I had used years earlier. Naturally I did all this unconsciously.
The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.
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