• Several Circles, January - February 1926. Oil on canvas, 140.3 x 140.7 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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    Kandinsky, revolutionary synesthete

    It is said that Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky revolutionised art. The inventor of Abstract Art created works which completely left tradition behind and gave modern art a new direction. How revolutionary his ideas and theories were can be proven by a quick look at his biography. Like many other artists of his kind he got in trouble with several political systems. After having worked for the Soviet regime in post-revolutionary Russia, he – with many other intellectuals – had to leave the country when the Communists tightened control to establish their dictatorship. Then, after living in Germany where he had a very creative period at the Bauhaus, he had to…