Claude monet simple biography of kandinsky



09/10/2015

1. Kandinsky began to practice art at the age of 30. Prior to that, he successfully studied economics and law: the position of a professor of law at Derpt University was already assured for him.

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But he decided to give up a promising career and went to Germany to study painting.

Kandinsky at Moscow University., 1893

2. Claude Monet’s "Haystacks" became a real revelation to Kandinsky which proved to be an important milestone on his path to abstraction.

In the book "Stairs" (1913) he recalls, "And once I saw the painting for the first time. It seemed to me that it was impossible to guess without a catalogue that it was a haystack.

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This lack of clarity was unpleasant to me: I thought that the painter had no right to paint so unclearly. It was a vague feeling that there was no object in the painting. I noticed with surprise and confusion that the painting not only gripped me but printed ineradicably on my memory, and sud