Here's the sources I used to find the info on Kandinsky as well as some of his work:

*http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/kandinsky/

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky

Between the years of 1922 and 1933 Kandinsky began exploring more geometrical elements in his pieces. He often used shapes such as the circle, half-circle, angles, straight lines, and curves. Kandinsky was big into music so in all of his pieces he would use the colors and try to bring a musical aspect through them. In fact he actually says that he tried to make the colors sing in his paintings. Kandinsky was pretty influenced by the work of Monet, Richard Wagner, and H.P. Blavatsky.

Wassily Kandinsky was very interested with abstract art. He also was fascinated and stimulated with color as a child. This grew to a kind of color symbolism that he used throughout his work. When he first saw Monet's Haystacks he wasn't quite sure what he should think about it. He wrote this about the piece, “That it was a haystack the catalogue informed me. I could not recognize it. This non-recognition was painful to me. I considered that the painter had no right to paint indistinctly. I dully felt that the object of the painting was missing. And I noticed with surprise and confusion that the picture not only gripped me, but impressed itself ineradicably on my memory. Painting took on a fairy-tale power and splendour.” So overall Kandinsky's pieces that I am focusing on are his geometric abstract pieces, as well as his strong focus on the use of color.

Art Concentrations

As I looked through various artists and the concentrations they submitted, I found some interesting groups, some disturbing, and some that really intrigued me. One artist in particular that I really liked her pictures was Katherine Devereux. She had one picture in particular that really struck me. It was a picture that focused on the front corner bumper of an old Chevy or something. First of all I really love those kind of cars and I honestly looked into possibly getting one for my first car, but the composition as a whole was really beautiful.