The document discusses Wassily Kandinsky's career as a painter and one of the pioneers of abstract art. It provides information on Kandinsky's early life and education in law, his exposure to French Impressionist artworks that inspired him to pursue painting, his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1896. It describes Kandinsky's early colorful paintings and his founding of the Blue Rider group in 1911. It notes Kandinsky's transition to fully abstract non-representational paintings from 1914 onward that focused on color and design rather than depicting objects. The document includes several quotes by Kandinsky on the importance of color and the difficulty of abstract painting.

1. The Color Wheel

10. One of Kandinsky’s First Paintings (1903)

14. ABSTRACT

16. This is what we are doing today…. Kandinsky Color Wheels