Kandinsky was a Russian avant-garde artist, working in the late 19th to mid-20th century. He is best known for his abstract paintings, many of which were inspired by music. It is speculated he had ...

On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) occupies a pioneering role in the modernist canon. He was among a handful of artists ...

Kandinsky took up painting by chance and rather late in life, when he was already 30 years old and a successful lawyer. Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is one of Russia’s most famous artists and the ...

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Synesthesia, present in 2-4% of the global population and poetically translated as a “joining of the senses," is one of the most artistically darling mental conditions. It manifests differently in ...

Wassily Kandinsky considered his most important paintings to be the ten colorful, complex canvases in his Compositions series, which he completed in 1939. That he named this important series after a ...

The Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky believed his time was one of spiritual crisis. “The nightmare of materialism…[has] turned life into an evil, senseless game,” he wrote, and Western culture ...

The German artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is considered to be the first entirely abstract artist. Prior to World War II, Kandinsky was part of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter and later ...

Mention abstract art, and Kandinsky’s compositions featuring brightly colored spots and geometric shapes are likely to be what comes to mind first. Click to enlarge the image of Vasily Kandinsky.

The geometric painting by Wassily Kandinsky hadn't been seen in public for over 70 years before turning up in Germany. Its rediscovery has been dubbed an "art-historical sensation." After disappearing ...