Also included are printed manifestos where Kandinsky outlines his growing views on abstraction, revealing the thought process behind his push to give abstract art a more philosophical grounding.

When he saw a painting by Claude Monet and heard music by the composer Richard Wagner, Kandinsky was inspired to create art. He moved to Germany to learn more about art. When he listened to music ...

One—Wassily Kandinsky—is remembered as an influential ... and this month the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, north of Copenhagen, will give him his first Scandinavian monographic show.

Vasily Kandinsky is regarded as one of the world’s pioneers of abstract art. While never formally diagnosed, he is believed to have possessed synaesthesia, where senses of taste, sight ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The French artist Louise Bourgeois was at the height of her artistic powers when she died in New York in 2010, having produced ...

By Catherine Hickley The German government’s advisory panel on Nazi-looted art has recommended a vibrant tempera painting by Wassily Kandinsky be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family who ...