Who is Wassily Kandinsky from Understanding Comics and what is their importance?

As Expressionism grows popular, Wassily Kandinsky is one of the artists who takes great interest in the power of line, shape, and color to suggest the inner state of the artist and provoke the five senses. He and his peers begin searching for an art that might somehow unite the senses and the different art forms which appeal to those senses, a concept called synaesthetics.