Wassily Kandinsky: Paris Years

October of 1933 began Kandinsky's "Parisian Period." The closing of the Bauhaus and the failure of its reopening helped to make Kandinsky's decision to settle in France. By this time he had complete mastery of his theories and the execution of arranging simple elements into a whole composition. He broke away fully from the concept of the object of the painting and explored the creation of forms that obeyed their own laws.

He produced 144 paintings and more than 200 watercolors. His stepped away from previous techniques, departing from definable figures and moving into a realm in which his paintings merely existed as form, color, and line. This marked the climax of Kandinsky's career before his death in Paris.

When Wassily Kandinsky first began his art classes at the age of ten, he had little knowledge of how art would affect him, and how he would affect art, later in his life. His artistic career underwent changes and developments which allowed him to arrive at his ultimate goal of "pure" art.

His travels took him to major art centers of the world, which expanded his own ideas and introduced them to others. Even though Kandinsky got a late start in producing art, it did not retard his artistic ability or development.

If Kandinsky felt he wasted any time on law school and professorships, he certainly made up for it by transforming the art world with groundbreaking ideas and artwork that "sang."

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