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Wassily Kandinsky Pioneer of the Abstract Movement

Wassily Kandinsky Pioneer of the Abstract Movement. 1866-1944. Born in Russia 1866. Wassily was born into a well-to-do family, the son of a business man in a good cultural environment As a boy he learned to play the piano, the cello and learned to draw

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Wassily Kandinsky Pioneer of the Abstract Movement

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  1. Wassily KandinskyPioneer of the Abstract Movement 1866-1944

  2. Born in Russia 1866

  3. Wassily was born into a well-to-do family, the son of a business man in a good cultural environment • As a boy he learned to play the piano, the cello and learned to draw • He really loved to draw and later wrote… • “I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting lifted me out of reality.”

  4. A Lawyer? • Wassily’s parents wanted him to become a lawyer so they sent him to law school in 1866…six years later he graduated with honors… • By the time he was thirty he was appointed Professor to the Department of Law • But he was unhappy and decided to leave his successful career to become a painter

  5. Kandinsky was influenced by the Impressionists Munich Schwabing with the Church of Strursala - 1908

  6. Wassily entered Anton Azbe’s (Yugoslavian artist) prestigious private painting school • He learned about image composition line and form – but soon grew bored • He then attended Munich Academy of Arts • He worked in exclusively in the Black and White spectrum

  7. Study of Abstract Squares

  8. Project Circle Mural • Turn over your paper and write your name and the Number/Letter on your circle • Using Oil Pastels Color in the circles as full as you can! • When finished – cut out along the line… • Turn in when you are finished! • Grab a work sheet and continue coloring

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