The German artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is considered to be the first entirely abstract artist. Prior to World War II, Kandinsky was part of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter and later ...

The Blue Rider is the name of a picture, a periodical and a movement, all centred on the intense, bespectacled figure of Wassily Kandinsky. He painted one of the pictures with that title, edited ...

Wassily Kandinsky, often credited as the father of abstract art, played a pivotal role in its development. In the early 20th century, Kandinsky explored art as a means of expressing spiritual and ...

Wassily Kandinsky loved music and could play the cello and the piano. His paintings were even inspired by music. He literally saw colours when he heard music and heard music when he painted.