The German artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is considered to be the first entirely abstract artist. Prior to World War II, Kandinsky was part of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter and later ...

For example, when looking at the painting on the right our brain can imagine the movements performed by Kandinsky in its creation. Brush-strokes are a major feature of abstract art. Unlike ...

The house said the "visionary" Weinbergs "assembled one of Europe's most distinguished collections over the past 50 years." ...

who came up with an arresting sequence that is abstract rather than figurative, with a nod to Russian artists like Wassily Kandinsky. "We discussed with the producers whether we wanted to have ...

With these ideas, Kandinsky helped to create a whole new type of painting, called abstract art. But all those other painters, who'd spent years learning how to draw horses and castles, felt like ...

Kandinsky’s treatise, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, articulated the philosophical underpinnings of abstraction. Other key figures in the abstract movement include Piet Mondrian and Kazimir ...

Mark Rothko and Wassily Kandinsky. Abstract art can be near-impossible to comprehend. Luckily, it doesn't ask to be. Art tends to be inseparable from its socio-political and historical context ...

He then turned those feelings into unusual or abstract painted shapes. For example, Kandinsky used sharp lines and pointy shapes to show anger.He used soft curves and pale colours to show calmness.