For me, the province of art and the province of nature thus became more and more widely separated, until I was able to experience both as completely independent realms. This occurred to the full ...

The Russian lawyer-turned-painter sought to simplify art through a deconstructive approach to painting and by visualizing his inner workings. Wassily Kandinsky ...

A ghostly bird emerges from an envelope and a pair of triangles transform into a dog in “Animated Kandinsky,” an interactive version of Wassily Kandinsky’s vibrant 1932 “Decisive Pink” ...

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Just as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907 made Matisse's Portrait of Mme Matisse of 1905 seem passé, so Kandinsky's First Abstract Watercolor of 1910 made Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ...

The history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is intertwined with the work of Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) more so than any other artist of the ...

When Wassily Kandinsky died in Paris seven years ago, his passing was little noted. Yet no one, not even Matisse or Picasso, has had a greater influence on modern art. This week Boston’s Institute of ...

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Nature (1849) Let us look at this American artist first. How did he ever get to America, to start with? Why isn’t he a ...