Tag Wassily Kandinsky

December 14, 2020
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Klee and Kandinsky Side by Side

December 14, 2020
in Art & Architecture

Michael Peppiatt— Even if Paris lost its prominence as the art centre of the world around the mid-twentieth century (with existentialism waning and Abstract Expressionism on the rise), everything in the French capital operated as if nothing had changed a decade later when I began writing gallery ‘round-ups’ for various

December 16, 2014
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Wassily Kandinsky and the Abstract

December 16, 2014
in Art & Architecture

Ivy Sanders Schneider – When you encounter some of Wassily Kandinsky’s early works, it can be hard to remember that this artist – who began his career with bright, folk-art inspired, post-impressionist landscapes – would become one of the first true abstract painters. Although his early style was quite illustrative,