Vasili Kandinsky became convinced that art should be free of representational subject matter when he:
A. mistook an upside-down painting of his for an unfamiliar work of spectacular beauty.
B. was no longer able to sell any of his traditional landscape paintings.
C. had a near-death experience in which he "saw" music and "heard" color.
D. was fasting and meditating in a monastery and had a vision of the future of painting.
E. None of these answers is correct.
A
Kandinsky sought to eliminate subject matter and employ a nonrepresentational style to communicate a formal language of line, form, and color.
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