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 ...

Mark Rothko and Wassily Kandinsky. Abstract art can be near-impossible to comprehend. Luckily, it doesn't ask to be. Art tends to be inseparable from its socio-political and historical context ...

Artist Wassily Kandinsky is known for combining art and music to create abstract art to express emotions. According to ...

With these ideas, Kandinsky helped to create a whole new type of painting, called abstract art. But all those other painters, who'd spent years learning how to draw horses and castles, felt like ...

For example, when looking at the painting on the right our brain can imagine the movements performed by Kandinsky in its creation. Brush-strokes are a major feature of abstract art. Unlike ...

Credited with creating one of the first purely abstract works of art, Kandinsky’s masterpieces have been admired and studied the world over. Interestingly, his career began 120 years ago ...

From 1910, in his seminal art theory book, On the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter who was one of the ...

Polish authorities have condemned as scandalous a decision by a German auction house to sell a painting by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. They allege the 1928 untitled abstract watercolour was ...

From 1910, in his seminal art theory book, On the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter who was one of the greatest early abstract artists, envisioned the concentric trinity of the ...

Back in the mid-1960s, pure abstraction still just about meant something. We’d already had Malevitch and Kandinsky and all ...

Leonardo Nierman was a leading figure in modern Mexican art, renowned for his dynamic abstract landscapes that evoked motion ...