Analyze Kandinsky’s sources for his abstract works. In order to fully understand the art of Kandinsky, it is important to start with a definition of the word ‘Abstract’ (for it is not really a concept that we have come across, before in this course). Abstract art does not depict recognizable scenes or objects, but instead is made up of forms and colours that exist for their own expressive sake. In short it abandons the …showed first 75 words of 2276 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2276 total…in a new genre of abstract painting which he had established. In a series of small steps he had discovered a new concept in painting. He had carefully removed the representational element from his composition - now the subject matter was in colour and form alone. Having taken in the lessons of all artist (as far ranging as Matisse, Kant and Wagner) he had created a new spiritual art fit for his new spiritual world.