What influence does Wassily Kandinsky’s work have on today’s art?

Question by Katie: What influence does Wassily Kandinsky’s work have on art today?
Basically, how does his work influence the art work today? Why is he regarded as the Father of Modern Art and through him, what has changed?

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Answer by Maturin
He was one of the most influential artists of his generation. As one of the first explorers of the principles of nonrepresentational or “pure” abstraction, Kandinsky can be considered an artist who paved the way for abstract expressionism, the dominant school of painting since World War II (1939-1945).
Kandinsky’s influence on the course of 20th-century art was further increased by his activities as a theorist and teacher. In 1912 he published Concerning the Spiritual in Art, the first theoretical treatise on abstraction, which spread his ideas through Europe.

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