Artist:

Wasilly Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter active in the early 1900s. Kandinsky is known as the frontrunner of abstract art, since he believed that art was a deeply spiritual experience meant to visually portray human emotion through colors and patterns. Also afflicted with synesthesia, Kandinsky would often try to represent sounds that he could see in his artwork as well. His pieces almost all had some varying level of abstractness to them, although his work would range from being purely abstract to pieces of religious background or social commentary.