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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (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 .
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic. Learn more about Kandinsky’s life and work, including his notable paintings.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, tr. Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky) (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognised purely works.
One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky exploited the evocative interrelation between color and form to create an aesthetic experience that engaged the sight, sound, and emotions of the public.
Wassily Kandinsky was born on December, 16th (4), 1866 in Moscow, in a well-to-do family of a businessman in a good cultural environment. In 1871 the family moved to Odessa where his father ran his tea factory.
Seen as the inventor of pictorial abstraction with his treatise "Concerning the Spiritual in Art," a text that became canonical, Vassily Kandinsky imposed a radical break from everything that had...
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (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.
Dec 16, 1866 - Dec 13, 1944. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Born in Moscow,...
Wassily Kandinsky and his paintings. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky pioneered abstract art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His unique perspective on the form and function of art emphasized the synthesis of the visual and the auditory.
Wassily Kandinsky (or Vasily Kandinsky due to the variations produced when translating Cyrillic to Latin Alphabet) is generally hailed as the founder of abstraction in western art.
