1. Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944

2. I applied streaks and blobs of colours onto the canvas with a palette knife and made them sing with all the intensity I could Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. Wassily Kandinsky

3. Russian Blue Riders

4. Spiritual Harmony

5. Careful Planning Practiced layout

6. "It was from the catalog I learned this was a haystack. I was upset I had not recognized it. I also thought the painter had no right to paint in such an imprecise fashion. Dimly I was aware too that the object did not appear in the picture..."

7. Wassily Kandinsky. Volga Song. 1906. Tempera on cardboard. 49 x 66 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

8. Russian Woman in a Landscape (1906)

9. Old Town II

10. Gabriele Munter

11. Gabriele Munter Painting in Kallmunz

12. Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel

13. Picture XVI; The Great Gate of Kiev

14. Improvisation 26 (Oars) Oil on canvas, 1912 42.1" x 38.2

15. Study for Painting with White Lines (Bild mit weissen Linien), 1913. Watercolor, india ink, and pencil on paper, 15 11/16 x 14 1/8 inches

16. Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) 1913; Oil on canvas, 145 x 119.7cm (57 x 47 in);

17. Small Pleasures 1913

18. Composition VII

19. To The Unknown Voice

20. Wassily Kandinsky, White Line, No. 232, oil on canvas, 1920.

21. Composition VIII 1923

22. On White II 1923

23. Wassily Kandinsky, Black and Violet, oil on canvas, 1923.

24. Contrasting Sounds 1924

25. Yellow, Red, Blue 1925

26. Wassily Kandinsky, Several Circles, oil on canvas, 1926.

27. Wassily Kandinsky, Softened Constructio n, oil on canvas, 1927.

30. Red Oval

31. On Points

32. Dominant Curve

33. Decisive Pink

34. Capricious

35. Around the Circle

36. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition X, oil on canvas, 1939.

37. Composition: Storm Guided student questions What colours do you see? What colours do you see the most of? What types of lines do you see? Does anything in this painting remind you of a storm? How does this painting make you feel? Is there any place in this painting that seems restful to you? How? Would you like to be standing in the middle of this painting? What do you think it would feel like? Why?