“At that time [c. 1904 – 1905] I tried, by means of lines and by distribution of mottled points of colours [in his tempera painting on paper: 'Russian Beauty in a Landscape', 1905] to express the musical spirit of Russia. Other pictures of that period reflected the contradictions and later the eccentricities of Russia.”

— Wassily Kandinsky

Source: 1916 -1920, Autobiography', 1918, p. 29

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Russian painter 1866–1944

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