About Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter and art theorist, lived and worked in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. He is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Born in Moscow, he began formal painting studies at the age of thirty.
![“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the…” quote by Wassily Kandinsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/39c/wassily-kandinsky-5828_children_those-things-that-we-encounter-for-the-f_629427.jpg)
