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Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasilij Vasiljevič Kandinskij, Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij, Vassily Kandinsky Description Russian-Soviet painter, university teacher, art theorist, teacher, lawyer and illustrator
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky [a] (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School.
Gabriele Münter by Kandinsky, 1903. See also her portrait of him, 1906. [1] This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944). During his life, Kandinsky was associated with the art movements of Der Blaue Reiter, Expressionism and Abstract painting. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of ...
Vasily Kandinsky, Kandinsky's first abstract watercolor (Study for Composition VII, Première abstraction), painted in 1913 [1] Russian Futurism. Natalia Goncharova, Cyclist, 1913 Rayonism. Mikhail Larionov, The Glass, 1912 Suprematism. Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915 Proletkult. El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1919 ...
The lines of his face can hardly be distinguished. His hands are "represented in a mad, virtuosic dash along an infinite keyboard." [ 163 ] [ note 32 ] This work, like Maschere , shows a series of flying masks with various expressions that can readily be interpreted as a "visualization or materialization of the different states of mind" of a ...
The composition of the painting consists mainly of diagonals. Geometric shapes such as lines, circles, semicircles, triangles, squares, a checkerboard pattern and a black area in the center of the crossing figures, as well as a larger brownish-gray trapezoid, are reminiscent of the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich and his suprematist style, which Kandinsky understood and admired.
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