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Wassily Kandinsky
Painting with Green Center, oil on canvas by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4 (December 16, New Style), 1866, in Moscow, Russia. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of pure abstraction in modern painting.1