A Landmark Kandinsky With a Troubled Past Is in the Spotlight, Again The abstract work was looted by the Nazis, displayed in a Dutch museum and finally returned to its owners.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is one of Russia’s most famous artists and the founder of abstract art. His compositions have become iconic abstract art pieces around the world.

Today's Google doodle celebrates the 148th birthday of Russian abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky. He's generally thought of as the first entirely abstract artist, drawing inspiration from ...

The landscapes are vast improvements on his earlier Impressionist studies. In Study for “Landscape with Tower” (1908), for instance, Kandinsky seems to all of the sudden be seized by color, and ...

View Landscape with a bridge by Wassily Kandinsky on artnet. Browse more artworks Wassily Kandinsky from Kunstberatung Zürich.

If abstract art quintessentialized art -- revealed art at its most uncompromising and pure, purging it of everything that was not art (Matisse's dramatized likeness, Picasso's storytelling) -- neither ...

Art tends to be inseparable from its socio-political and historical context, yet abstract art favours non-objective form, prioritising raw emotion over all else.

Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a pioneer of abstract art. His paintings have not aged and appear contemporary and relevant to us now.