The German artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is considered to be the first entirely abstract artist. Prior to World War II, Kandinsky was part of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter and later ...

With these ideas, Kandinsky helped to create a whole new type of painting, called abstract art. But all those other painters, who'd spent years learning how to draw horses and castles, felt like ...

When he saw a painting by Claude Monet and heard music by the composer Richard Wagner, Kandinsky was inspired to create art. He moved to Germany to learn more about art. When he listened to music ...