What art period is Kandinskys style of work from?
Kandinsky was a modernist working from the beginning of the twentieth century until WWII. Modernist art began to experiment in abstraction with the goal of creating art that was universally meaningful and connected with people on an instinctual level. FOr example, a painting by Leonardo DaVinci may be of a scene from the Bible, and is meaningful because of the way it depicts that Biblical story and its beauty, but it would be hard to appreciate and enjoy fully if you don’t have knowledge of the Bible and if you don’t have a level of art connoisseurship that would enable you to appreciate its beauty fully. Modernist painters like Kandinsky, Matisse and Chagall were attempting to make art that would speak to everyone on a psychological level. In Kandinsky’s case, he tried to make his art universally appealing by making his works consist solely of fields of color (though his earlier work often aimed to do this using less abstract scenes), as he believed that specific colors inspired parti
