{"id":4,"date":"2014-12-16T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artshebang.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2015-01-04T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T10:02:06","slug":"happy-birthday-wassily-kandinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artshebang.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-wassily-kandinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Wassily Kandinsky!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite artists Wassily Kandinky had his 146th birthday today. He lives on through his many beautiful and innovative paintings. I discovered this thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=Wassily+Kandinsky&amp;oi=ddle&amp;ct=wassily-kandinskys-148th-birthday-5655681428357120-hp&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His early work could be classified as expressionism using bright colors to show the feelings of a landscape. His later work is more abstract.<\/p>\n<p>In fact he is the one that invented abstract. Legend has it that after he had went home his cleaning lady who cleaned his studio accidentally put his painting back on the easle upside down! When Kandinsky returned he found his painting upside down and actually liked it better. This opened his eyes to the notion that a painting could be a work of art with our having any recognizable objects.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this he was a teacher at the Bauhaus a mecca for art and design in the 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s. Other teachers included <a href=\"http:\/\/artshebang.com\/famous-art\/artist-paul-klee-bauhaus-painter-expressionist.html#profile\">Paul Klee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artshebang.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/artshebang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chicago-kandinsky-864-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"Kandinsky Painting from Chicago Art Institute\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artshebang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chicago-kandinsky-864-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artshebang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chicago-kandinsky-864-1024x814.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artshebang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chicago-kandinsky-864.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kandinsky Painting from Chicago Art Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artshebang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chicago-kandinsky-875.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/artshebang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chicago-kandinsky-875-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"Kandinsky Painting from Chicago Art Institute\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artshebang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chicago-kandinsky-875-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artshebang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chicago-kandinsky-875-1024x1009.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artshebang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chicago-kandinsky-875.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kandinsky Painting from Chicago Art Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite artists Wassily Kandinky had his 146th birthday today. He lives on through his many beautiful and innovative paintings. I discovered this thanks to google. His early work could be classified as expressionism using bright colors to show the feelings of a landscape. His later work is more abstract. In fact he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artshebang.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-wassily-kandinsky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday Wassily Kandinsky!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,10,9,4,12,8],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-famous-artists","tag-artist-birthday","tag-bauhaus","tag-bouhous","tag-famous-artist","tag-google-birthday","tag-wassily-kandinsky"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday Wassily Kandinsky!! - Art Shebang<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artshebang.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-wassily-kandinsky\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Birthday Wassily Kandinsky!! - Art Shebang\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of my favorite artists Wassily Kandinky had his 146th birthday today. 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