Vasily Kandinsky is regarded as one of the world’s pioneers of abstract art. While never formally diagnosed, he is believed to have possessed synaesthesia, where senses of taste, sight ...

Kandinsky's main interest was creating expressist art with the pure elements: color and shape. In "Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art," Kandinsky writes about the influence of science in his art: "A ...

There’s much to be said for Der Blaue Reiter—a movement, centered in Munich, where Kandinsky had moved to study art, and which shares a name with one of his paintings, from 1903. It enlisted s ...

With these ideas, Kandinsky helped to create a whole new type of painting, called abstract art. But all those other painters, who'd spent years learning how to draw horses and castles, felt like ...