The Russian artist credited with painting one of the first entirely abstract works has been honoured with a Google doodle on what would have been his 148th birthday. Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and
Net – Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky's 148th birthday has been celebrated in a Google Doodle illustration today that reflects his own distinct abstract style. The artist, who is credited with being the first painter to produce purely abstract works
As much an art theorist as an actual artist Kandinsky's view on art that it was actually a spiritual pursuit, as much for the painter as the person viewing a painting – the soul needed it. Colours charm the beauty of the soul, points have meaning and
Like symphonies, Kandinsky's great abstract paintings speak directly to our senses and feelings. Their constellations of mysterious marks are like waves of sound that trigger emotions. For him, the world they pointed towards
Kandinsky returned to Moscow after the outbreak of the First World War, but not sympathetic to the official theories on art in communist Russia and returned to Germany in 1921, where he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922