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| | handprint : wassily kandinsky |
 | | Kandinsky married the art student Nina Andreevskaya, almost 30 years his junior, in 1917 and threw himself into a variety of government administrative roles and art educational programs in the new Communist government. |
 | | By 1908, however, Kandinsky began systematically to eliminate representation from his paintings, spurred (so the story goes) by an encounter with one of his own paintings in the dark, set upside down, which though unrecognizable was "an indescribably beautiful picture impregnated with an inner radiance." By 1913 he had arrived at complete abstraction. |
 | | Blue, placed at the top, was for Kandinsky the heavenly color, cold, tranquil, and sorrowful as it approaches fl; the color yellow was earthly warmth; and the color red represented life, energy, purposeful strength, and masculine maturity. |
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