Wassily Kandinsky, who lived from 1866 to 1944, was instrumental in the development and maturation of modern art. As one of the founders of the Blue Rider movement in the years before World War I, his contribution to the germination of abstract art was indispensable. In both his painting and his writing, this Russian avant-garde artist's work was an early statement of an art form that did not bloom at its fullest until after World War II. From some of his early abstractions of 1909-1910 to his last work, thirty-five years later, he remained a major point of reference in the history of the art of this century. In Kandinsky's “On White I”, we experience form and color in a subtly organic fashion, the shapes within the painting v ague references to the real world. The forms dance in a rhythm that pulsates with the beat of life in all its varying complexities.