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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

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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

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

In 2013, Dutch museums identified 139 artworks as Nazi loot, including paintings from masters such as Kandinsky, Henri Matisse and Paul Klee.

From Seattle Times Mar. 2, 2023

The price was nonetheless a new auction high for Kandinsky.

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2023

His name is Kandinsky, and the shapes he uses in his paintings look a lot like the ones I see when I hear noises.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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