Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter known as a pioneer of abstract art. He studied law and economics but also learned music as a child. Kandinsky developed theories on the spiritual relationship between art and music, teaching at the Bauhaus school in Germany. He believed that art should develop the soul through its use of form, color, and composition rather than realistic subjects. Kandinsky's abstract paintings are said to give life through exquisite arrangements of lines and colors that convey drama, beauty, and spiritual themes.