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In addition to painting, Kandinsky was an art theorist; his influence on the history of Western art stems perhaps more from his theoretical works than from his paintings. He helped found the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (Munich New Artists' Association), becoming its president in 1909.
Gabriele Münter by Kandinsky, 1903. See also her portrait of him, 1906. [1]This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944). ). During his life, Kandinsky was associated with the art movements of Der Blaue Reiter, Expressionism and Abstract pa
Simple Complexity or Ambiguity is an abstract 1939 oil on canvas painting, produced by Vassily Kandinsky in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France. [1] It was given to the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris by its friends' association in 1959 but has been loaned to the Museum of Grenoble since 1988.
Landscape with Red Spots was the name given to each of two successive oil paintings produced in Bavaria in 1913 by the Russian émigré painter Wassily Kandinsky. The first is now in the Museum Folkwang, in Essen, Germany. The second, known as Landscape with Red Spots, No 2 (see picture at right), is in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, in Venice.
Composition VI is a 1913 oil painting on canvas by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, now in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. The result of 24 studies, it took the painter eight months to complete the large painting. He wanted to depict a flood, a baptism and the theme of destruction and rebirth.
Composition VII is an abstract oil painting executed in 1913 by Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian-born painter. It is in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow. Art historians have concluded that the work is a combination of the themes of Resurrection, Judgment Day, the Flood and the Garden of Eden. [1]
Composition X is the last of the ten compositions he painted during his lifetime (he was 73 at the time). Unusually for Kandinsky, who attached spiritual importance to color and geometric forms, the predominant color of the painting is black, which for him evoked the closure and end of things.
The Blue Rider (German: Der Blaue Reiter) is an oil painting executed in Bavaria in 1903 by the Russian emigré artist Wassily Kandinsky.It is now held in a private collection in Zürich, and shares its name with an almanac and the art movement he would co-found with Franz Marc in the early 1910s.