Wassily Kandinsky was one of the first modern artists to put abstraction into the visual vocabulary of 20th century painting. Yet roots of Kandinsky's modernism lie more in the soul than in any scientific mood. For him, folk art with its romance and spiritual energy was a vital source, just as it was for his contemporary Stravinsky, who made brightly violent music, such as The Firebird, out of traditional Russian folk tales, and the sculptor Brancusi, who derived his mythical Maiastra bird from a Rumanian fairy tale.
To celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth, Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum last week...
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