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When
Kandinsky was 30, he took up painting and decided
to go to Munich to study life-drawing, sketching
and anatomy. He thought this would give him
a basic artistic education. He soon began to
surpass the constraints of the simple art class
and began to create work that was extremely
ground-breaking for the time.
Around 1913 Kandinsky began working on paintings
that came to be considered the first totally
abstract works in modern art; for they made
no reference to or described objects in the
physical world. In 1911, along with Franz Marc
and other German expressionists, Kandinsky formed
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) a group of
artists who shared a belief that are should
be in the service of the spiritual and transcendent
rather than a description of the material world.
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