Wassily Kandinsky

🌐 Primary Sources & Official Portals

• Guggenheim Museum Collection: Kandinsky: https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/wassily-kandinsky
• Bauhaus Dessau Archive: https://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/

Description

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist credited as one of the pioneers of non-objective abstract art. During his tenure at the Bauhaus, Kandinsky authored ‘Point and Line to Plane’, constructing a rigorous semiotic grammar of visual forms, kinetic vectors, and synesthetic relationships.

Related Entities

• paul-klee

Related Concepts

• point-line-plane-grammar
• visual-syntax
• bauhaus-formal-theory
• synesthesia-in-abstraction

Mentions in Source

• “The geometric point is an invisible thing… materialised, it belongs to language first, and then to visual art.” — wassily-kandinsky-point-and-line-to-plane
• “The line is the track made by the moving point; it is created by movement — specifically through the destruction of the ultimate self-contained repose of the point.” — wassily-kandinsky-point-and-line-to-plane