Yellow Pages

The company Swissguide AG provides additional business information on all Swiss companies. This book contains many photographic examples and drawing from Kandinsky’s works which offer the demonstration of his theoretical observations, and which allow the reader to reproduce in him the inner obviousness provided that he takes the time to look at those pictures with care, that he let them acting on his own sensibility and that he let vibrating the sensible and spiritual strings of his soul. In Switzerland the company Swisscom Directories AG produces and distributes directories in several forms including internet-based yellow pages in four languages, including English. This is the work of the painter to listen to know these effects in order to produce paintings which are not just the effect of a random process, but the fruit of an authentic work and the result of an effort toward the inner beauty. In Sweden it's called Gula Sidorna, distributed by Eniro AB. The above of the basic plane corresponds to the looseness and to lightness, while the below evokes the condensation and heaviness. In Spain it's called Páginas Amarillas, distributed by Telefónica Publicidad e Información, S.A. Every part of the basic plane possesses an proper affective coloration which will influence on the tonality of the pictorial elements that will be drawn on it, which contributes to the richness of the composition which results from their juxtaposition on the canvas.

In December 2005 the Norwegian Supreme Court decided that Findexa holds an exclusive right to the trademark. Kandinsky even considers the basic plane as a living being that the artist "fertilizes" and of which he feels the "breathing". Yellow Pages) which is a registered trademark belonging to Findexa, which is owned by Eniro. The artist possesses the intuition of this inner effect of the canvas format and dimensions, which he chooses according to the tonality he wants to give to his work. In Norway the directory is called "Gule Sider" (i.e. This tonality is determined by the relative importance of theses horizontals and verticals lines, the horizontals giving a calm and cold tonality to the basic plane, while the verticals give it a calm and warm tonality. The company Xybertek Systems provides additional business information on all Nigerian companies. The basic plane is in general rectangular or square, thus it is composed of horizontals and verticals lines which delimitate it and define it as an autonomous being which will serve as support to the painting communicating it its affective tonality.

In Nigeria, the Nigerian Yellow Pages is produced as internet-based yellow pages in English language by the company Xybertek Systems. The angle formed by the angular line possesses as well an inner sonority which is warm and close to yellow for an acute angle (triangle), cold and similar to blue for an obtuse angle (circle) and similar to red for a right angle (square). In Netherlands the equivalent directory is titled Gouden Gids; within the district concerned it is distributed free to each telephone subscriber. A force which deploys itself without obstacle as the one which produces a straight line corresponds to lyricism, while several forces which confront or annoy each other form a drama. The Sección Amarilla is distributed yearly and free of charge by the homonimous company in association with Telmex; older issues are returned to the company, recycled, and used to print the latest issue. A diagonal possesses by consequence a more or less warm or cold tonality according to its inclination according to the horizontal and to the vertical. In Mexico the commercial phone directory is called Sección Amarilla (Yellow Section), while the personal phone directory is called Sección Blanca (White Section). The subjective effect produced by a line depends on its orientation : the horizontal line corresponds to the ground on which man rests and moves, to flatness, it possesses a dark and cold affective tonality similar with black or blue, while the vertical line corresponds to height which offers no support, it possesses on the opposite a luminous and warm tonality close from white and yellow.

The phone book is updated regularly (typically every six months or a year) and is published in various editions (depending where the book is published). A plane can be obtained by condensation, from a line rotated around one of its ends. The phone book consisted of white pages and yellow pages. The produced linear forms can be of several types : a straight line which results from an unique force applied in a single direction, an angular line which results from the alternation of two forces with a different direction, or a curved or wave-like line produced by the effect of two forces acting simultaneously. Infomedia Nusantara (one of its subsidiaries), regularly publishes phone books. The line is the product of a force, it is a point on which a living force has been applied in a given direction, the force applied on the pencil or on the paint brush by the hand of the artist. In Indonesia, the telecommunication company TELKOM with PT. It can be alone and isolated or on the opposite put in resonance with other points or with lines.

In Germany a directory titled Die Gelben Seiten is distributed free to each subscriber, by the Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile. The point is the most concise form, but according to its placement on the basic plane it will take a different tonality. In Finland the directory is called Keltaiset sivut. This form can be a square, a triangle, a circle, like a star or even more complex. In Denmark the equivalent directory is titled De Gule Sider is distributed free to each subscriber, by TDC Forlag. So the point used by the painter is not a geometric point, it is not a mathematical abstraction, it possesses a certain extension, a form and a color. In Colombia, the standard yellow and White Pages are published and distributed every year free of charge by Publicar, a Colombian subsidiary company of Carvajal, which also publishes and distributes yellow and white pages in other Latin American countries. The point is in the practice a small stain of color put by the artist on the canvas.

By early 2005, there were a number of independent local and international yellow pages operators in numerous cities including Yilong Huangbaoshu, based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province with operations in Hangzhou and Ningbo. He doesn’t analyze them on an objective and exterior point of view, but on the point of view of their inner effect on the living subjectivity of the observer who looks them and let them acting on his sensibility. Later, another mainly state-owned telecom operator, China Netcom began to produce, either directly or on a sub-contracted basis, yellow pages in selected cities around the country. Kandinsky analyses in this writing the geometrical elements which compose every painting, namely the point and the line, as well as the physical support and the material surface on which the artist draws or paints and which he calls the basic plane or BP. In China, the modern yellow pages industry was started in the late 1990’s with the formation of two international joint ventures between US yellow pages publishers and China’s telecom operators, namely: a joint venture started in Shenzhen between RHDonnelley and China Unicom (later including Hong Kong’s PCCW and InfoSpace); and a joint venture between China Telecom Shanghai and what later came to be known as the yellow pages operations of Verizon Communications Corp.(NYSE:VZ). The red and the green form the third big contrast, the orange and the purple the fourth one. In Czech Republic and Slovakia the equivalent directory is titled Zlaté stránky and is distributed free to each telephone subscriber. Mixed with blue, it moves away from man to give the purple, which is cooled red.

Competitive local directories often include commercial directories on yellow paper, but cannot use the Yellow Pages brand. Mixed with yellow, it gains in warmth and gives the orange which possesses an irradiating movement on the surroundings. Other ILECs such as MTS and SaskTel publish their own directories and use the Yellow Pages name under licence. Mixed with black, it leads to brown which is a hard color. Yellow Pages Group is the market leader in print and online commercial directories and one of the largest media companies in Canada, producing the official directories of Bell Canada, Telus and Aliant. The red is a warmth color, very living, lively and agitated, it possesses an immense force, it is a movement in oneself. It produces and distributes directories in both English and French. The gray corresponds to immobility without hope; it tends to despair when it becomes dark and regains little hope when it lightens.

In Canada the company Yellow Pages Group owns the trademarks Yellow Pages and Pages Jaunes. The mixing of white with black leads to gray, which possesses no active force and whose affective tonality is near that of green. In Belgium the equivalent directory is titled Pages d'Or (French) or Gouden Gids (Dutch), and is distributed free to each telephone subscriber. That’s why any other color resonates so strongly on its neighbors. In (The Republic of) Ireland the equivalent directory is titled Golden Pages while in Northern Ireland it is "yellow pages". The black is a nothingness without possibility, it is an eternal silence without hope, it corresponds to death. More competition is expected in November 2005 from the libralisation of "12", the former unique "4-1-1" number of Renseignements Telephoniques, french for Directory Inquiry. The white acts like a deep and absolute silence full of possibilities.

Another French editor of Yellow Pages is Bottin. The white and the black form the second big contrast, which is static. Since the liberalization of .fr domains in May 2004, the domain yellowpages.fr has been registered by Phonebook of the World.com. Clarity is a tendency to the white and obscurity a tendency to the black. Vivendi Universal moved to enter the French Yellow Pages market in 2001 with scoot.fr, but the attempt was a killed by a reorganisation of the struggling company. The mixing of blue with yellow gives the total immobility and the calm, the green. Previously, many former state monopoly telecom companies outside the US had tried to ban competition by claiming the term "yellow pages", or the translation of "yellow pages" into the vernacular, as their exclusive trademark. The blue is the typically celestial color which evokes a deep calm.

This court decision defended by the Parisian Lawyer, Andre Bertrand, was path-setting for the whole European Yellow Pages industry, as it decided that the phrase "Yellow Pages" cannot be considered the property of a single company. The yellow is the typically terrestrial color whose violence can be painful and aggressive. pagesjaunes.com, the .com version of Pages Jaunes, was the issue of a major court case at WIPO; the original registrant, an individual from Los Angeles, won against France Télécom. The yellow possesses an eccentric movement and the blue a concentric movement, a yellow surface seems to get closer to us, while a blue surface seems to move away. They are distributed free by Pagesjaunes.fr, a company affiliated with France Télécom. The yellow and the blue form the first big contrast, which is dynamic. In France Yellow Pages are referred to as Pages Jaunes. The warmth is a tendency to yellow, the coldness a tendency to blue.

The most famous of these immortalised the phrase 'Not happy, Jan!' in the Australian vernacular. The first obvious properties we can see when we look at isolated color and let it act alone; it is on one side the warmth or the coldness of the colored tone, and on the other side the clarity or the obscurity of the tone. The Yellow Pages have for many years produced some of Australia's most popular television commercials, often highlighting the perils of not placing an advertisement in the directory on time. The art work is born from the inner necessity of the artist in a mysterious, enigmatic and mystic way, and then it acquires an autonomous life; it becomes an independent subject animated by a spiritual breath. Today, the Yellow Pages is produced by Sensis, a wholly-owned advertising subsidiary of Telstra. This inner necessity is the right of the artist to an unlimited freedom, but this freedom becomes a crime if it is not founded on such a necessity. The directory was originally produced by the Postmaster General, and continued to be produced by the government, as the telephone system transferred to Telecom Australia and now Telstra. Every form is the delimitation of a surface by another one; it possesses an inner content which is the effect it produces on the one who looks at it attentively.

Australia's business directory was first published in its own volume in 1973 as the Yellow Pages. He defines it as the principle of the efficient contact of the form with the human soul. After the one year "no competition" clause expired BT too went into competition with the Yellow Pages, re-entering the market by adding similar content to their existing "The Phone Book", adding a classified section to the traditional alphabetical domestic and business listings. The inner necessity is for Kandinsky the principle of the art and the foundation of forms and colors' harmony. Yell was bought by venture capitalists in 2001, and in 2003 was floated on the Stock Exchange. But this effect can be much deeper and cause an emotion and a vibration of the soul, or an inner resonance which is a purely spiritual effect, by which the color touches the soul. In the mid-1990s the Yellow Pages business was re-branded as Yell, although the directory itself continued to be known as the Yellow Pages. When we look at colors on the painter's palette, a double effect happens : a purely physical effect on the eye, charmed by the beauty of colors firstly, which provokes a joyful impression as when we eat a delicacy.

In 1984, the year that BT was privatized, the department producing the directory became a stand alone subsidiary of BT, named Yellow Pages. During decadent periods, souls fall to the bottom of the Triangle and men only search for the external success and ignore purely spiritual forces. At the same time, The Thomson Corporation formed Thomson Directories Ltd, and began to publish the Thomson Local directory, which would remain the Yellow Pages' main, and often sole, competitor in the UK for more than the next two decades, and would be the competitive driving force behind such changes to Yellow Pages as the adoption (in 1999) of colour printing and "knock-out-white" listings. It is a spiritual Triangle which moves forward and rises slowly, even if it sometimes remains immobile. The Yellow Pages directory continued to be distributed to all telephone subscribers by BT. The point of the Triangle is constituted only by some individuals who bring the sublime bread to men. Thomson Yellow Pages was sold by The Thomson Corporation in 1980, at the same time as Post Office Telecommunications became the (then) state-owned British Telecom (BT). Kandinsky compares the spiritual life of the humanity to a large Triangle similar to a pyramid; the artist has the task and the mission of leading others to the top by the exercise of his talent.

The Thomson Corporation formed Thomson Yellow Pages in 1966 to publish and to distribute the directory to telephone subscribers for the GPO, and later for The Post Office. These are not scientific and objective observations, but inner observations radically subjective and purely phenomenological which is a matter of what the French philosopher Michel Henry calls the absolute subjectivity or the absolute phenomenological life. With the encouragement of The Thomson Corporation, at the time an advertising sales agent for the nationalised General Post Office's telephone directory, a business telephone number directory named the Yellow Pages was first produced in 1966 by the GPO for the Brighton area, and was rolled out nationwide in 1973. So it is a purely subjective form of experience that everyone can do and repeat taking the time to look at his paintings and letting acting the forms and the colors on his own living sensibility. Los Angeles telephone users can select from telephone directories published by SBC, Verizon, and several independent advertising companies. The analysis made by Kandinsky on forms and on colors don’t result from simple arbitrary ideas associations, but from the inner experience of the painter who has passed years creating abstract paintings of an incredible sensorial richness, working on forms and with colors, observing for a long time and tirelessly his own paintings and those of other artists, noting simply their subjective and pathetic effect on the very high sensibility to colors of his artist and poet soul. For example, SBC Communications is the dominant local telephone service provider in California, but since Verizon acquired GTE, it now provides service in many pockets such as West Los Angeles. Works by Kandinsky have been recently sold for as much as US$25 million.

Others are telephone companies who provide local telephone service elsewhere. As a synaesthete, he named some of his paintings "improvisations" and "compositions" as if they were works of music and not painting. Some of these publishers are pure advertising operations with no phone infrastructure. Along with Piet Mondriaan and Kazimir Malevich, Kandinsky is considered a pioneer in abstract art (to the extent that a Monty Python song refers to him as having "laid down (its) axioms"). Since the Bell breakup, other companies publish directories that compete with those of local telephone companies for advertising business. All the works in her possession have been legated to the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris, where we can see the largest collection of his paintings. Then and since, phone companies or their agents sell the right to place advertisements within the same category, next to the basic listings. From the death of Wassily Kandinsky and during thirty years, Nina Kandinsky has never stopped to diffuse the message and to divulge the work of her husband.

Directories were published on behalf of the component Bell companies by the various publishing companies. One should not be content with a brief and casual impression, or make a coarse identification of the forms used by the artist; forms which have been subtly harmonized and placed so as to resonate with the observer's own soul. At least until the anti-trust breakup of the Bell System in the late 20th century, the term "Yellow Pages" was a trademark for commercial directories and the commercial portions of the by-commercial-category sections of directories that also include by-name listings. In Kandinsky’s works, some characteristics are obvious while certain touches are more discrete and veiled; that’s to say they reveal themselves only progressively to those who make the effort to deepen their connection with his work. In 2004, the search engine A9.com added a similar feature for many cities in the United States when it launched its Yellow Pages feature. The small squares of colors and the colored bands seem to stand out against the black background of Composition X, as stars' fragments or filaments, while enigmatic hieroglyphs with pastel tones cover the large maroon mass, which seems to float in the upper left corner of the canvas. Thus, French Yellow Pages users can see a photograph of a business along with its phone number and street address. Composition IX is a painting with highly contrasted powerful diagonals and whose central form give the impression of a human embryo in the womb.

In 1999, a new tactic was pioneered by France Télécom's Pages Jaunes, which dispatched photographers to record nearly every possible view in front of nearly every address in certain French cities. In 1936 and 1939 he painted his two last major compositions; canvases particularly elaborate and slowly ripped that he hadn't produced for many years. The information contained in the Yellow Pages is essentially a commodity, so publishers often engage in product differentiation tactics like bragging that their listings are more comprehensive or up-to-date. This period corresponds, in fact, to a vast synthesis of his previous work, of which he used all elements, even enriching them. Many publishers now make their listings available on the World Wide Web, on "Yellow Pages" Web sites. He also used sand mixed with colour to give a granular texture to his paintings. When an advertisement is printed with a white background, its part of the page does not receive yellow ink - so the white is actually the natural color of the paper. He used original colour compositions which evoke Slavonic popular art, and which look like precious watermark works.

Interestingly, most yellow pages are not printed on yellow paper; rather the yellow is printed onto the paper. Biomorphic forms with supple and non-geometric outlines appear in his paintings; forms which suggest externally microscopic organisms but which always express the artist's inner life. Many publishers also offer the option to have advertisements appear with a white background to make them stand out more. He lived in a small apartment, and created his work in a studio constructed in the living room. Since the mid-1990s, there has been a trend among Yellow Pages publishers to add four-color printing for some advertisements. In Paris, he was quite isolated, since abstract painting, particularly geometric abstract painting, was not recognized : the artistic fashions being mainly impressionism and cubism. Yellow Pages publishers make their profits by selling special value-added features to businesses such as a larger font size for their listing, or an advertisement box next to the listings in a category. Kandinsky then left Germany and settled in Paris.

The majority of listings are in plain small black text. The school pursued its activities in Berlin until its dissolution in July 1933. Yellow Pages directories are usually published annually and distributed for free to all residences and businesses within a given coverage area. Following a fierce slander campaign from the Nazis, the Bauhaus closed at Dessau in 1932. . In front of the hostility of the right political parties, the Bauhaus left Weimar and settled in Dessau from 1925. As the name suggests, they are usually printed on yellow paper. This simple visual identification of forms and of the main colored masses present on the canvas only corresponds to a first approach of the inner reality of the work whose right appreciation necessitates a much deeper observation- not only of forms and colors involved in the painting, but also of their relation, their absolute position and their relative disposition on the canvas, of their whole and reciprocal harmony.

In many countries, the Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses organized by the category of product or service. The large two meter width painting that is Yellow – red – blue (1925) consists of a number of main forms: a vertical yellow rectangle, a slightly inclined red cross and a large dark blue circle, while a multitude of straight black or sinuous lines, arcs of circles, monochromatic circles and scattering of colored checkerboards contribute to its delicate complexity. URL accessed on February 15, 2005.. The freedom of which is characterised in each of his works by the treatment of planes rich in colors and magnificent gradations as in the painting Yellow – red – blue (1925), where Kandinsky shows his distance from constructivism and suprematism movements whose influence was increasing at this time. Yell: UK Operations. This period was a period of intense production. UK History: 1990-1999. Geometrical elements took on increasing importance in his teaching as well as in his painting, particularly circle, half-circle, the angle, straight lines and curves.

URL accessed on February 15, 2005.. The development of his works on forms study, particularly on point and different forms of lines, lead to the publication of his second major theoretical book Point and Line to Plane in 1926. Yell: UK Operations. Kandinsky taught the basic design class for beginners, the course on advanced theory as well as conducting painting classes and a workshop where he completed his colors theory with new elements of form psychology. UK History: 1980-1989. Its objectives included the merging of plastic arts with applied arts, reflected in its teaching methods based on the theoretical and practical application of the plastic arts synthesis. URL accessed on February 15, 2005.. The Bauhaus was an architecture and innovative art school.

ketupa.net media profiles. The next year, the Soviets have officially forbidden all forms of abstract art, having judged it as harmful for socialist ideals. Thomson Group: chronology. In 1921 Kandinsky receives the mission to go to Germany to attend the Bauhaus of Weimar, on the invitation of its founder, the architect Walter Gropius. URL accessed on February 15, 2005.. In 1916 he meets Nina Andreievskaia who in the following year, becomes his wife. TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES & DIRECTORY ENQUIRIES UK 2004. He paints little during this period.

Thomson Directories. He devotes his time to artistic teaching with a program based on forms and colors analysis, as well as participating in the organization of the artistic culture Institute at Moscow. During the years 1918 to 1921, Kandinsky deals with the cultural development politic of Russia, he collaborates in the domains of art pedagogy and museum reforms. He believed that color could be used in a painting as something autonomous and apart from a visual description of an object or other form. Kandinsky's writing in The Blue Rider Almanac and the treatise On the Spiritual In Art, which was released at almost the same time, served as both a defense and promotion of abstract art, as well as an appraisal that all forms of art were equally capable of reaching a level of spirituality.

More of each were planned, but the outbreak of World War I in 1914 ended these plans and sent Kandinsky home to Russia via Switzerland and Sweden. The group released an almanac, also called The Blue Rider and held two exhibits. Kandinsky then moved to form a new group The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) with like minded artists such as Franz Marc. The group was unable to integrate the more radical approach of those like Kandinsky with more conventional ideas of art and the group dissolved in late 1911.

He helped to found the Munich New Artists' Association in and became its president in 1909. In addition to painting Kandinsky developed his voice as an art theorist. Kandinsky used sometimes musical terms to designate his works : he called many of his most spontaneous paintings "improvisations", while he entitled "compositions" some others much more elaborated and worked at length, a term which resonated in him like a prayer. The influence of music has been very important on the birth of abstract art, as it is abstract by nature and as it doesn’t try to represent vainly the exterior world but simply to express in an immediate way the inner feelings of the human soul.

The paintings of this period are composed of large and very expressive colored masses evaluate independently from forms and lines which serve no longer to delimitate them or to bring them out but which combine between them, are superimposed and overlap in a very free way to form paintings of an extraordinary force. The broad use of color in The Blue Mountain, illustrate Kandinsky's move towards art in which the color itself is presented independently of form. The face, clothing, and saddles of the riders are each of a single color, and neither they or the walking figures display any real detail. A procession of some sort with three riders and several others crosses at the bottom.

A mountain of blue is flanked by two broad trees, one yellow, and one red. The Blue Mountain (1908 – 1909) painted at this time shows more of his trend towards pure abstraction. From 1906 to 1908 Kandinsky spent a great deal of time travelling across Europe, until he came to live in the small Bavarian town of Murnau. In and of itself The Blue Rider is not exceptional in that regard when compared to contemporary painters, but it does show the direction that Kandinsky would take only a few years later.

Kandinsky shows the rider more as a series of colors than of specific details. Indeed, some believe that a second figure, a child perhaps, is being held by the rider though this could just as easily be another shadow from a solitary rider. The Blue Rider in the painting is prominent, but not clearly defined, and the horse has an unnatural gait (which Kandinsky must have known). In the foreground are more amorphous blue shadows, presumably the counterparts of the fall trees in the background.

The rider's cloak is a medium view, and the shadow cast is a darker blue. Perhaps the most important of Kandinsky's paintings from the decade of the 1900s was The Blue Rider (1903) which shows a small cloaked figure on a speeding horse rushing through a rocky meadow. Yet the horse is muted, while the leaves in the trees, the town, and the reflections in the river glisten with spots of color and brightness. Riding Couple (1907) depicts a man on horseback, holding a woman with tenderness and care as they ride past a Russian town with luminous walls across a river.

An exception is Sunday, Old Russia (1904) where Kandinsky recreates a highly colorful (and no doubt fanciful) view of peasants and nobles before the walls of a town. For the most part, however, Kandinsky's paintings did not emphasize any human figures. This changes at the beginning of the 20th Century and much remains of the many landscapes and towns that he painted, using broad swathes of color but recognizable forms. Unfortunately very little exists of his work from this period, though presumably it was extensive.

Kandinsky's time at art school was helped by the fact that he was older and more settled than the other students and he began to emerge as a true art theorist in addition to being a painter. Kandinsky's book 'Concerning the Spiritual In Art' (1910) and 'Point and Line to Plane' (1926) echoed this basic Theosophical tenet. The creative aspect of the forms is expressed by the descending series of circles, triangles, and squares. Theosophical theory postulates that creation is a geometrical progression, beginning with a point.

Blavatsky (1831-91), the most important exponent of Theosophy in modern times. P. Kandinsky was also spiritually influenced by H. Also in 1896, prior to leaving Moscow, he saw an exhibit of Monet and was particularly taken with a depiction of a haystack which, to him, had a powerful sense of color almost independent of the object itself.

It was not until 1896, at the age of 30, Kandinsky gave up a promising career teaching law and economics to enroll in art school in Munich. Kandinsky would write a few years later that 'Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with the strings'. His study of the folk art in the region, in particular the use of bright colors on a dark background was reflected in his early work. He tells in Looks on the past that he had the impression to move into a painting when he entered in the houses or the churches decorated with the most shimming colors.

In 1889 he was part of an ethnographic group that traveled to the Vologda region north of Moscow. The fascination with color continued as he grew up in Moscow, although he seems to have made no attempt to study art. This is probably due to his synaesthesia which allowed him to quite literally hear as well as see color. As a child he would later recall being fascinated and unusually stimulated with color.

Kandinsky's youth and life in Moscow brought inspiration from a variety of sources. Kandinsky biographer Messer divides his art into three periods:. Artistic scholar Hajo Duechting has divided Kandinsky's artistic development into six periods:. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of the spirit and deep spiritual desire inner necessity, which was a central aspect of his art.

The creation by Kandinsky of purely abstract work did not arrive as an abrupt change, but rather as the fruit of a long development and maturation of intense theoretical thought based on his personal experience of painting. . He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. He lived the rest of his life there, becoming a French citizen in 1939.

At that time he moved to France. There he was a teacher at the Bauhaus from 1922 until it was closed by the Nazis in 1933. Being in conflict with official theories on art, he returned to Germany in 1921. He went back to Moscow in 1918 after the Russian Revolution.

In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Although quite successful in his profession, he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose law and economics. Kandinsky was born in Moscow but spent his childhood in Odessa.

One of the most important 20th-century artists, alongside Picasso and Matisse, he is credited with painting the first abstract works in the history of modern art. Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский, first name spelled as [vassi:li]) (December 4, 1866 (O.S., December 16, 1866 N.S.) – December 13, 1944) was a Russian-born French painter and art theorist. In such a way that the Kandinskian equation, to which we have alluded to, can be written in reality as follows : Interior = interiority = invisible = life = pathos = abstract." (Michel Henry, Seeing the invisible, on Kandinsky). "Kandinsky calls abstract the content that painting must express, that’s to say this invisible life that we are.

When on the opposite two forces are in presence and enter in conflict, as this is the case with the curve or with the angular line, we are in the drama." (Michel Henry, Seeing the invisible, on Kandinsky). That’s because the straight line proceeds from the action of a unique force with no opposition that its domain is lyricism. The pathos of a force entering in action and whose victorious effort is annoyed by no obstacle, that’s lyricism. "Kandinsky has been fascinated by the expression power of linear forms.

In this way the painted work is coupled with an ensemble of texts that enlighten it and that make at the same time of Kandinsky one of the major theorists of the art." (Michel Henry, Seeing the invisible, on Kandinsky). "[Kandinsky] has not only produced a work whose sensorial magnificence and invention richness eclipses those of its most remarkable contemporaries ; he has given moreover an explicit theory of abstract painting, exposing its principles with the highest precision and the highest clarity. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key then another to cause vibration of the soul." -Wassily Kandinsky. "Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.

The dead matter is a living spirit." (article entitled On the question of the form). It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. "The world is full of resonances. They brought me a joy which shattered me until the bottom of the soul, and which reached until ecstasy." (Looks on the past).

These impressions renewed every sunny day. […] Rendering this hour seemed the biggest, the most impossible of the happiness for an artist. […] The sun dissolves all Moscow in a spot which, as a frenzied tuba, makes entered into vibration all the inner being, the whole soul. The sun is already low and has reached its highest force, which it has searched all the day, to which it has aspired all the day.

"In this painting, I was in fact in quest for a certain hour, which was and which remains always the most beautiful hour of the day in Moscow. The variation in lines depends upon the number of these forces and upon their combinations." (Point and line to plane). […] The forces coming from without which transform the point into a line, can be very diverse. Here, the leap out of the static to the dynamic occurs.

It is created by movement – specifically through the destruction of the intense self-contained repose of the point. It is the track made by the moving point; that is, its product. "The geometric line is an invisible thing. It belongs to language and signifies silence." (Point and line to plane).

The geometric point has, therefore, been given its material form, in the first instance, in writing. […] Thus we look upon the geometric point as the ultimate and most singular union of silence and speech. Considered in terms of substance, it equals zero. Therefore, it must be defined as an incorporeal thing.

"The geometric point is an invisible thing. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon – developing out of its nature and characteristics : Externally – or – inwardly." (Point and line to plane). "Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. Is beautiful what is inwardly beautiful." (On the Spiritual In Art).

"Is beautiful what proceeds from an inner necessity of the soul. It is the language which speaks to the soul, in its proper form, of things which are the daily bread of the soul and which it can receive only under this form." (On the Spiritual In Art). "Painting is an art, and the art in its whole is not a vain objets creation which get lost in the void, but a power which has a goal and must serve to the evolution and to the refinement of the human soul, to the moving of the Triangle. The artist which lets its gifts unemployed is the lazy servant." (On the Spiritual In Art).

The innate feeling of the artist is like the talent of the Gospel which must not be buried. As a neglected body which becomes weak and finally impotent, the spirit becomes weaker. "But, as well as the body, the spirit fortifies itself and develops itself by the exercise. Late Period: from the 1930s until 1944.

Middle Period: from the early 1920s until the early 1930s. Early Period: approximately 1900 to 1914. Biomorphic Abstraction (Paris 1934–1944). Point and Line to Plane (The Bauhaus 1922–1933).

Russian Intermezzo (1914–1921). Breakthrough to the Abstract (The Blue Rider 1911–1914). Metamorphosis (Munich 1896–1911). Beginnings (Moscow 1866–1896).