“Form itself, even if completely abstract,” Wassily Kandinsky once said, “has its own inner sound.” By that measure, the new exhibition at the H’ART Museum must be a symphony. At “Kandinsky,” the ...

Vasily Kandinsky, "Dominant Curve"(Courbe dominante) (April 1936), oil on canvas, 50 7/8 x 76 1/2 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 45.989 (© ...

On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) occupies a pioneering role in the modernist canon. He was among a handful of artists ...

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Wasilli Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 to a wealthy merchant family. He could have become the law professor that he trained to be. Had he done so, he would probably have disappeared into ...

Bobby Tanzilo is jazzed up about the new Kandinsky retrospective at Milwaukee Art Museum, in part because of the first American appearance of a large and impressive work. All through the impressive ...

Choose a direction for your perusal of “Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle,” a retrospective that lines the upper three-fifths of the Guggenheim Museum’s ramp with some eighty paintings, drawings, ...

Wassily Kandinsky 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 ...

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 background, ...

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