Wassily Kandinsky pioneered abstract painting in the early 20th century. He believed that geometric forms, lines, and colors could express the inner life of the artist—a theory quite evident in his own explosive paintings, which were often inspired … Represented by industry leading galleries.

What did Kandinsky influence?

Before passing away in 1944, Kandinsky personally influenced Tachisme, the French abstract painting school, while his paintings, exhibited in 1939 at New York's MoMA, inspired the city's Abstract Expressionists.

How did Wassily Kandinsky change art?

As his artwork turned abstract, a style captured well in the Google Doodle, his paintings became more musical. After all, sheet music is as an interesting example of abstract art – it turns sounds and time into notes and lines. Kandinsky wanted to do the same thing for visual art.