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The abstract paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, set to the song "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans" (written by Eddie DeLange & Louis Alter) as sung by Harry Connick Jr. & Dr. John Creaux, from the album Harry Connick Jr. 20.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (b. December 1886 ~ d. December 13, 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely-abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession ~ he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat ~ he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anto Azbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1921. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

Kandinsky's creation of purely-abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense thought based on his artistic experiences. he called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity; it was a central aspect of his art

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