The Blue Rider is the name of a picture, a periodical and a movement, all centred on the intense, bespectacled figure of Wassily Kandinsky. He painted one of the pictures with that title ...

Wassily Kandinsky loved music and could play the cello and the piano. His paintings were even inspired by music. He literally saw colours when he heard music and heard music when he painted.

Just ask the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. Late one night in 1908 ... He even called some of his pictures compositions because he felt he was composing them. They had the rhythm and movement ...