Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally known as the pioneer of abstract art, avant-garde art, one of the founders of pure abstraction in painting and important member of Bauhaus.

Kandinsky taught the basic design class for beginners and the course on advanced theory at the Bauhaus. He conducted painting classes and a workshop in which he augmented his colour theory with new elements of form psychology.

His examinations of the effects of forces on straight lines, leading to the contrasting tones of curved and angled lines, coincided with the research of Gestalt psychologists, whose work was also discussed at the Bauhaus.

Geometrical elements took on increasing importance in both his teaching and painting—particularly the circle, half-circle, the angle, straight lines and curves. This period was intensely productive.