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Wassily Kandinsky, born on December 16, 1866, and died on December 13, 1944, was a prominent artist from Russia. He is considered one of the pioneers of abstract art and his works have had a profound impact on 20th-century art.

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“Form itself, even if completely abstract ... has its own inner sound.”

Art Form Sound Music Abstraction Abstract Art Visual Language

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.”

Ends Form Sides Color Masters Pursuit Supreme Representing Matisse

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

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“In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.”

Trying Form Individual Voice Destiny Progress Painting Independent Composition Uncertain Independent Life

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“There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritual atmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued but later lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revival of the external forms which served to express those inner feelings in an earlier age.”

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.”

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“The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.”

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“The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.”

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“The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.”

Form Three Circles Primaries Dimensions Opposition Fourth Eccentric Equilibrium Synthesis

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)

About the Author

Born: December 16, 1866
Died: December 13, 1944
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 99

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Concerning the spiritual in artRelated source material

Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in ParticularRelated source material

Kandinsky, Complete Writings on ArtRelated source material

Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912Related source material

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Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)Related source material

Kandinsky Watercolours: Exhibition May 23-June 28, 1970, Art Gallery of OntarioRelated source material

Kandinsky compositionsRelated source material

Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art: 1922-1943Related source material

Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984Related source material

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