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Kandinsky

American  
[kan-din-skee, kuhn-dyeen-skyee] / kænˈdɪn ski, kʌnˈdjin skji /

noun

  1. Wassily or Vasili 1866–1944, Russian painter.


Kandinsky British  
/ kanˈdinskij /

noun

  1. Vasili (vaˈsilij). 1866–1944, Russian expressionist painter and theorist, regarded as the first to develop an entirely abstract style: a founder of der Blaue Reiter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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That is most easily seen with Kandinsky, starting with four landscapes he painted in Murnau.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

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

In 2021, the Lewenstein heirs recovered another Kandinsky work lost under the same murky circumstances and sold at the same 1940 auction.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Mironov said he had therefore written to Russia's prosecutor general to ask him to investigate Sberbank and whether the content produced by "Kandinsky 2.1" was lawful.

From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2023

If I’m going to imitate Kandinsky, I’m going to have to bring on the shapes.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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