Wassily Kandinsky abandoned realism to paint spiritual geometry

Wassily Kandinsky spent his career stripping away the visible world to find what he called the pulsating life of art. By 1926, while teaching at the influential Bauhaus school in Germany, he had moved away from his early, intuitive style toward a strictly analytic approach. He began to treat the canvas as a mathematical plane where every point, line, and curve carried a specific spiritual weight.