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Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist born in 1866. Kandinsky contributed to the Early Modernist movement, worked in Germany and France and died in 1944. Get notified when Wassily Kandinsky's biography is complete:

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art — Part 1

A first encounter with any new phenomenon exercises immediately an impression on the soul.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art — Part 2: About Painting

Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor)

Composition 5

Romantic Landscape

Watercolor 6

Improvisation 28 (second version)

Composition 6

Composition 7

Portrait of Nina Kandinsky

Circles in a Circle

Composition 8

On White II

Untitled

Yellow Red Blue

Several Circles

Dominant Curve

Violet-Orange

Umberto Boccioni

Why can’t I stop painting my mother?

Piet Mondrian

There is no God, only Truth

Henri Matisse

100% artist

Telling the mystic tales of Finland

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Provocative model becomes a transgressive artist

Suzanne Valadon Wassily Kandinsky

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