Google is celebrating with is
doodle the 148th birthday of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky who was started painting when he was 30.
Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters and art theorists of the
previous century.
Wassily Kandinsky was born in
Russia and studied Law and Economics, after that he got a job as a
professorship at the University of Dorpat, Estonia. After sometime he left the
job in 1896 because he wanted to admit into the city’s Academy of Fine Arts. A
few years later he flourished as a painter and an art theorist.
Kandinsky published his own book
in 1912 which called Concerning the Spiritual in Art in which he told how the
colors told the soul of the viewers. He added “Color is the keyboard, the eyes
are the hammers, and the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the
hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
He immigrated to France in 1933
and became a French citizen in 1939. He died in France on December 13, 1944.
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