Upward
Wassily Kandinsky · 1929
Why it's great
A simple figure made of triangles, circles and rectangles seems to float up the green canvas in Kandinsky's Upward of 1929. Kandinsky used basic shapes like a kind of alphabet, and he thought a triangle pointing up meant striving higher.
Where to see it
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Hang it on your wall
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Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow and trained as a lawyer before becoming a painter at age 30. He lived in Russia, Germany and later France. He is considered one of the first artists to paint truly abstract works, using color and shape like music. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, in 1944.
