Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky was a successful lawyer before he took up painting at the relatively late age of 30. That year, he had come face to face with Claude Monet’s Haystack .

Wassily Kandinsky. 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 ...

Wassily Kandinsky, born in Moscow, Russia in 1866, is celebrated as a pioneer of abstract art. Originally trained in law and economics, he began studying painting in earnest at the age of 30 ...

Kandinsky was an early 20th-century Russian painter, who is now primarily recognized for bringing pure abstraction to Modern Art. Born and raised in Moscow, Kandinsky attended the University of ...

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is one of Russia’s most famous artists and the founder of abstract art. His compositions have become iconic abstract art pieces around the world.

This was famously the case for painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was inspired by one of his colorful visions of a symphony to switch from a law career to study art. Kandinsky’s paintings are ...

Kandinsky's Painting No. 201, on the left, was the inspiration for the salad on the right, which was used to test diners' appreciation of the dish. Museum of Modern Art; Crossmodal Research ...

Kandinsky returned to Moscow after the outbreak of World War I, but was not sympathetic to the official theories on art in communist Russia and went back to Germany in 1921, where he taught at the ...

Wassily Kandinsky’s 1932 painting Decisive Pink, like much of the early abstract painter’s work, is fun to look at.The titular pink rectangle on the left contrasts with a bright yellow ...