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This work by Vassily Kandinsky, an oil on canvas painted in 1910, offers a colorful vision of the German village of Murnau - Click the link for more details.
Vasily Kandinsky, Landscape with rain, January 1913, oil on canvas. Picture: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. That said, Houghton regarded her spirit drawings as a form of sacred art, Dunn says, not ...
Vasily Kandinsky with his work, Dominant Curve in Paris, 1936. Credit: Boris Lipnitzki/Roger-Viollet. Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky was a successful lawyer before he took up painting at the ...
Sand & Paint. There is an unexpected mood of joy in most of Kandinsky’s work, almost an air of frivolity in some of it. Color, which he seemed to have made an honest effort to subdue in some of ...
Who was Vasily Kandinsky? 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.
On view through September 5, Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle examines how the wildly influential artist sought to liberate art from its entanglements with nature and representation, pursuing ...
Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is an iconic figure in the history of modern art, but not a guaranteed crowd-puller such as Van Gogh, Monet or Picasso.
Vasily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (second version), 1912. Oil on canvas, 112.6 x 162.5 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift, photo ...
It worked for Vasily Kandinsky, the subject of a blockbuster exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW from Saturday. Kandinsky was a lawyer, economist and ethnographer before throwing it all off to ...
Vasily Kandinsky ‘Landscape with factory chimney’ 1910, oil on canvas, 66 x 81.9 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift.
Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a pioneer of abstract art. His work and theories on art profoundly influenced the School of Paris, the American Abstract Expressionists, as well as the ...