Kandinsky, Wassily

[ (kan-din-skee) ]

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A Russian-born painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who was a pioneer of abstract expressionism. His early canvases are turbulent abstractions; after 1920 his work incorporated brightly colored geometric forms.

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Kandinsky taught at the Bauhaus from 1922 to 1933.

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Two panels painted in 1914 by Vasily Kandinsky and recently on view at the Museum of Modern Art.
When Chevy Was Facebook|Blake Gopnik|August 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Winters liked to paint—usually quirky joke paintings that owed something to surrealism and Kandinsky.
Remembering Jonathan Winters: Ken Tucker on the Tragic and Triumphant Life of the Late Comedian|Ken Tucker|April 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
This is “Impression III (Concert)”, by Vasily Kandinsky, and I think it is very ugly – gloriously, importantly ugly.
Vasily Kandinsky Gets Ugliness Right|Blake Gopnik|March 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Was he already full of wrath, and had Wassily's conduct only thrown oil on the flame?
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876.|Various

David stood squarely before him: Wassily was a whole head the taller.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876.|Various
Wassily ran into the house, and at once returned, bringing the watch.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876.|Various
"That wretched Wassily has betrayed us," he hisses between his teeth.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876.|Various
In this, then, as in so much else, Kandinsky and Dalcroze are advancing side by side.
The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze|Emile Jaques-Dalcroze