Wassily Kandinsky

My artist's full name is Wassily Kandinsky. He was born on December 16,1866, and died on December 13,1944. He was born and raised in Moscow. His fathers name was Vasily Kandinsky and he ran a tea factory. His mothers name is Lidia Ticheeva and she worked as a musician. He had one sister and her name was Vsevolod Kandinsky together they did homeschooling throughout their years.

Wassily married his cousin when he was middle aged, then later on in life when he was a 50 year old music teacher, he married one of his students who was only 17. Also during his life time he taught at a German school, when he was younger he graduated from college to be a law student but painted on the side before pursing his career in painting, he went to Munich Academy of Arts and was alive during World War 1. Some of the struggles he faced throughout his life involved his parents getting a divorce in his late teens, he was forced to go to college for something he didn't want to do, and when he got older, after he had two children, one of them died at age 3.

When it came to his work though, Wassily used oil paints majority of the time and did his art works on canvas boards, cardboards, and other materials. When Wassily was painting, his painting associated with the time periods of the following; Expressionism, German Expressionism, Modern Art, Der Blave Reitr, Abstract. Wassily had many different paintings but a few of his most famous ones are Landscape with Two Poplars, The White Dot, and Transverse Line.