Kandinsky
Americannoun
noun
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Yet Münter has long been overshadowed by contemporaries like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who veered into acerbic expressionism, and Wassily Kandinsky, who migrated toward pure abstraction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
An exhibition featuring works by Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso has opened at the Beyeler Foundation, where Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone's We are Poems rainbow sculpture sits on the roof.
From BBC • May 11, 2025
If Wassily Kandinsky bent the visible world to the whims of his canvas, reducing concert hall scenes to puddles of color and line, Sonia Delaunay seems to have worked the other way around.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024
In February, local artist Soo Hong showcases a series of paintings on translucent surfaces, fluid and colorful explosions that hearken back to Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee but feel completely contemporary and original.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024
The Kandinsky biography she’s reading is facedown beside her silver brush.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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