Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky to give him his full title, was a Russian artist. It is generally acknowledged that Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. He was born in Moscow but grew up in Odesa, which is part of Ukraine, where he graduated at Grekov Odesa Art School.
In Yellow-Red-Blue, shown below, Wassily Kandinsky expresses more colour tones with a palette mainly composed of contrasting primary colours. For example, against the canary-yellow background; a splash of purple emerges from the bottom of the canvas. The artwork is well-balanced, featuring two focal centres: the left side is dominated by sharp angles, while the right side describes darker circular shapes. It was during his Bauhaus period that Kandinsky started paying more attention to the position of his geometrical elements in his compositions and the resulting effects. Yellow-Red-Blue is an almost kaleidoscopic display of fireworks filled with passion and joy. In most of his paintings there are similar styles not only with the use of primary colour tones but also in his markings on the canvas.
