The Evolution of Kandinsky’s Colour Theory and Spiritualism in Art

Making vibrations in the soul

Movement I (1935) by Wassily Kandinsky. Mixed media on canvas. 116 × 89 cm. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Image source WikiArt

The artist Wassily Kandinsky was obsessed with colour.

He ardently believed that through his colour-drenched abstract paintings, everyday reality could be transcended, giving access to a higher, immaterial order of experience.