Escaping the tangible world was the Theosophical artist’s highest calling. As Kandinsky writes in “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” (1911): A painter, who ... respectively, Art Nouveau and Hinterglas ...

For him, folk art with its romance and spiritual energy was a vital source, ... Kandinsky’s art became more and more severe in the 1920s, while he was teaching at Germany’s famed Bauhaus.

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

There, the town’s colors, light, and local folk art also prompted Kandinsky to develop his artistic theories, contained in 1911’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Wassily Kandinsky ...

In 1982, the Art Gallery of NSW hosted the show Kandinsky, which featured 40-odd works from the Guggenheim collection.Forty-one years later, the AGNSW is hosting the show Kandinsky, which features ...

German Expressionist artist Gabriele Münter was long-overshadowed by her 12-year romance with Wassily ... painting folk motifs across its walls (Kandinsky finally divorced his first wife in 1910 ...

Wassily Kandinsky, best known as the pioneer of abstract painting, kept a trove of sketchbooks between 1889 and 1935.Twelve of these sketchbooks are now the focus of a new release from No More Rulers.

Megan Fontanella, curator of Modern Art and Provenance at the Guggenheim Museum. Credit: Dominic Lorrimer The museum’s founder, Solomon Guggenheim, and his niece, Peggy, were patrons of Kandinsky.

Teacher Notes. This clip could be used to introduce the work of Kandinsky and the abstract artists and/or in a discussion about famous artists, art history, or painting.

Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a pioneer of abstract art. His work and theories on art profoundly influenced the School of Paris, the American Abstract Expressionists, as well as the ...