Wassily Kandinsky

- born in Russia in 1866
- teacher at the Bauhaus art school in Germany
- famous for making abstract art using bright colour, bold shape and line
- member of the 'Blue Rider' art movement

he said: "I applied streaks and blobs of colours onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could..."
Colour Study of Squares, c1913