Classroom Activity Art Starters: Wassily Kandinsky Part of Art Tales for Pre-K Wassily Kandinsky was a musician as well as a painter—sometimes both at the same time! Kandinsky believed that paintings, like music, could express and inspire feelings in everyone. Many of his paintings have bright and bold colors that he thought connected to specific sounds and music. Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) , 1913, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1978.48.1 Grade Level Pre-K–Kinderga