Kandinsky: A Delicious Early Work

Wassily Kandinsky - Cemetery & Vicarage in Kochel, 1909, oil on cardboard, Lenbachhaus, Munich (click photo for larger image)Russian artist Wasilly Kandinsky (1866-1944) is ranked among the artists whose work changed the history of art in the early years of the 20th century. He was among those who created wholly abstract painting, and he was a fouder of The Blue Rider group of German Expressionists. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic. Kandinsky truly was an innovator, although his later works do not possess the same charm and lusciousness as the earlier painting, featured here, which looks almost edible!