Vassily Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky, born in Moscow on December 4 (November 22) 1866 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, on December 13, 1944, is a Russian painter, engraver, theoretician of art, poet and playwright, naturalized German then French.
Considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century alongside, notably, Picasso and Matisse, he is one of the founders of abstract art: he is generally regarded as the author of the first non-figurative work Of the history of modern art, a watercolor of 1910 which will be called "abstract".
This watercolor, which would be the first abstract painting in the world, has raised controversies and discussions, and has provoked many contradictory theses. There are two opposing trends: that which really dates from 1910, and which includes it in a series of studies for Composition VII, which rejects this dating and brings it closer to the works and style of 1913.
Plaid for this latter thesis The format unusual and too large for the time, and especially a late inscription of this work in the handwritten register that regularly keeps Kandinsky from 1919.
Some of his works.
Composition VII -1913
Yellow-Red-Blue 1925
Transverse Line 1923
Autumn in Bavaria 1908
On White II 1923