Editing Wassily Kandinsky (section)

=== Return to Russia (1914–1921) ===
[[File:Vassily Kandinsky, 1919 - In Grey.jpg|thumb|right|''In Grey'' (1919) by Kandinsky, exhibited at the 19th State Exhibition, Moscow, 1920]]
{{blockquote|The sun melts all of Moscow down to a single spot that, like a mad tuba, starts all of the heart and all of the soul vibrating. But no, this uniformity of red is not the most beautiful hour. It is only the final chord of a symphony that takes every colour to the zenith of life that, like the fortissimo of a great orchestra, is both compelled and allowed by Moscow to ring out.|Wassily Kandinsky<ref>{{cite book |title=Kandinsky |first=Hajo |last=Duchting |publisher=[[Taschen]]  |year=2007 |page=7 |isbn=978-3836531467}}</ref>}}

From 1918 to 1921, Kandinsky was involved in the cultural politics of Russia and collaborated in art education and museum reform. He painted little during this period, but devoted his time to artistic teaching with a program based on form and colour analysis; he also helped organize the [[Institute of Artistic Culture]] in Moscow (of which he was its first director). His spiritual, expressionistic view of art was ultimately rejected by the radical members of the institute as too individualistic and bourgeois. In 1921, Kandinsky was invited to go to Germany to attend the [[Bauhaus]] of [[Weimar]] by its founder, architect [[Walter Gropius]].