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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky [a] (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art .
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Museum of Modern Art, New York 175 x 144.6 1909 Wassily Kandinsky - Picture with a Riding Archer and Landscape: Private, Vienna 35.8 x 44.0 Oil on wood 1909 Kochel – Straight Street: Lenbachhaus, Munich 32.9 x 44.6 Oil on pasteboard 1909 Landscape near Murnau with Locomotive: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 50.5 x 65.1 Oil on board 1909
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]
Kandinsky compared abstract painting to the process of musical composition, and called his major conceptual works "compositions", as opposed to his lesser "improvisations". Composition X is the last of the ten compositions he painted during his lifetime (he was 73 at the time).
The Texas Centennial Exposition was a world's fair presented from June 6 to November 29, 1936, at Fair Park, Dallas, Texas. A celebration of the 100th anniversary of Texas 's independence from Mexico in 1836, it also celebrated Texas and Western American culture.
The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1944, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or fewer .
The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1944, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer .