... searched for something more than an imitation. Kandinsky's journey of artistic discoveries began when he first viewed an exhibit of paintings by Monet and was particularly inspired by the famous impressionist art works "Haystacks"5 which seemed to distinguish the powerful sense of color from the form itself - "That it was a haystack the catalog informed me. I could not ... approach to painting. Yet, he had highly irrational spiritual ideas. Initially, strongly influenced by Cubism, he pushed it to its logical extreme. He was passionate about Russian mystical philosophy, especially the f...

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