Wassily Kandinsky pioneered abstract art and is a key figure in the history of modernism. His move from figurative painting to abstraction was a gradual one and this book follows that fascinating journey during the first twenty years of his career. Inspired in his early years as a painter by folklore scenes from Russia and the heightened colours of the landscape of southern
Germany, he went on to co-found the Expressionist Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group of painters with Gabriele Münter, Alexej Jawlensky and Franz Marc.
Gradually he stripped away the descriptive detail in his painting, hiding visual imagery behind fields of bright colour encompassed by strong lines. He felt that what he had discovered was a path to a new spiritual reality, more akin to music than the physical world.
This ground-breaking, fully illustrated study of Kandinsky's formative years includes an account of the period he spent in revolutionary Russia, examines his relationship with the painter Gabriele Münter and explores the profound influence of music on his art.
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