Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Kandinsky: AGNSW resumes its Modern Masters series with the biggest exhibition of the Modernist's work ever staged in Australia

Kandinsky was a Russian avant-garde artist, working in the late 19th to mid-20th century. He is best known for his abstract paintings, many of which were inspired by music. It is speculated he had ...
Hyperallergic

An Interactive Kandinsky to Consider and Destroy the Elements of Abstract Art

A ghostly bird emerges from an envelope and a pair of triangles transform into a dog in “Animated Kandinsky,” an interactive version of Wassily Kandinsky’s vibrant 1932 “Decisive Pink” ...
Outlookindia

Kandinsky Meets Beethoven: The Sound Of Colours And The Shape Of Music

For two weeks in September 2020, I saw my daughter, S, trying out her school art teacher’s prompt: attempting Wassily Kandinsky’s synaesthetic technique of giving shape and colour to music. The piece ...
Hyperallergic

Rethinking Kandinsky

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 (© ...
Princeton University

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 Blaue Reiter and later ...