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LESSON 1 · When Art Went Abstract

PAUSE TO THINK

What career did Kandinsky give up to paint?

Law

Kandinsky trained as a **lawyer** and was offered a professorship in jurisprudence. Around age **30**, in what he called a now-or-never mood, he turned it down and took the train to Munich to become a painter.

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