Kandinsky: The Birth of Abstract Art by Sylvie Girard-Lagos Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

Introduction
This is a set of popular art books that appreciate the representative works of world-famous painters. This book includes more than 60 works by Kandinsky. Kandinsky was born in Russia in 1866 and is known as the "father of abstract art." Kandinsky learned piano and cello since he was a child. He has the ability of synesthesia (mixed perception) and can "hear" colors very clearly. This ability has a major impact on his artistic creation. At the same time, he is born with a keen perception and strong memory for colors. Influenced by Impressionist painters such as Monet in his early years, he gave up the expression of concrete reality and began to use abstract forms to show the "inner nature of things." Complex geometric shapes, gorgeous and restless colors, interlaced and colliding lines... These seemingly messy but poetic elements constitute Kandinsky's abstract art, and have also had a profound impact on 20th century modernist art.