Kandinsky

American  

[kan-din-skee, kuhn-dyeen-skyee] / kænˈdɪn ski, kʌnˈdyin skyi /

noun

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

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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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Example Sentences

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

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

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

Murnau, a village in the Bavarian Alps, is often recognized as the place where Wassily Kandinsky discovered abstraction.

From New York Times

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