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Kandinsky, Wassily


Timeline: Towards Abstraction


-- Wassily Kandinsky, 1911


Kandinsky, Wassily, Russian in full VASILY VASILYEVICH KANDINSKY (b. Dec. 4 [Dec.

Accent in Pink, 1926 by Wassily Kandinsky

16, New Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia--d. Dec. 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr.), Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure ab straction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider; 1911-14) and began completely abstract painting.

His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic ( e.g., Tempered Élan, 1944).

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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994


Kandinsky, himself an accomplished musician, once said The concept that color and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton. Kandinsky used color in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound's character), hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of soun WebMuseum: Kandinsky, Wassily - The Public's Library and ...

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