Modern Artists

Neatorama has a short lesson on its pages here today talking about the artists that led the modern art movement. 

I’m not real keen on most modern art.  A lot of it always seems pretentious to me for some reason.  But Wassily Kandinsky’s art is different.  The use of color and movement of objects in his Composition series is almost hypnotic, and I found myself just staring at this picture below for quite a while.

According to his Wikipedia article here, Kandinsky’s first three compositions were destroyed by the Nazis in Germany as an example of “degenerate art.”  And Kandinsky could “hear colors,” a condition known as synesthesia.