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Kandinsky

[ kan-din-skee; Russian kuhn-dyeen-skyee ]

noun

  1. °Â²¹²õ·²õ¾±Â·±ô²â [vas, -, uh, -lee] or Va·si·li [vas, -, uh, -lee, v, uh, -, sil, -ee, vuh-, syee, -lyee], 1866–1944, Russian painter.


Kandinsky

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noun

  1. KandinskyVasili18661944MRussianARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: expressionist theorist Vasili (vaˈsilij). 1866–1944, Russian expressionist painter and theorist, regarded as the first to develop an entirely abstract style: a founder of der Blaue Reiter
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John C. Sweet portrays with a muted sadness Arnold Schönberg, the groundbreaking Jewish composer and music theorist, who is forced to cut off his friendship with the antisemitic Kandinsky.

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If Wassily Kandinsky bent the visible world to the whims of his canvas, reducing concert hall scenes to puddles of color and line, Sonia Delaunay seems to have worked the other way around.

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Murnau, a village in the Bavarian Alps, is often recognized as the place where Wassily Kandinsky discovered abstraction.

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In February, local artist Soo Hong showcases a series of paintings on translucent surfaces, fluid and colorful explosions that hearken back to Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee but feel completely contemporary and original.

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Scholars mentioned her name in the same breath as Kandinsky and Mondrian — a woman stepping toward Modernism before most of her male contemporaries.

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