Music for Kandinsky Paintings Born in #Moscow in 1866, Wassily #Kandinsky took up the study of art in earnest at age 30, moving to #Munich to study #drawing and painting. A trained musician, Kandinsky approached #color with a musician’s sensibility. An obsession with Monet led him to explore his own #creative concepts of color on #canvas, which were sometimes controversial among his contemporaries and critics, but Kandinsky emerged as a respected leader of the #abstract #art #movement in the ear