He Was A Jack Of All Trades

Kandinsky was an artist on many levels, which should come as no surprise given his musically oriented parents. He was a musician who played the piano and cello, in addition to being a great painter. His paintings are replete with references to music. He approached his painting with the sense of a musician, seeing music as the most transcendent kind of non-objective art. Kandinsky once remarked poetically: "Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings." The artist is the hand that plays, causing vibrations in the soul by touching one note or another. " This is one of the most interesting and key facts to know about Kandinsky.

Kandinsky was not only a musician and artist, but also a scholar. He earned a job at the Moscow Faculty of Law after graduating from the University of Moscow with honors in 1886 and continued to practice his art on the side. After visiting a show of French Impressionists, he decided to leave his law practice and relocate to Munich to pursue art full-time. Claude Monet's Haystacks in Giverny by Claude Monet encouraged him to stop his law practice.