Unfortunately she returned later, just as I had taken advantage of the friendlier atmosphere in the room by stating that perhaps an unexpected result of the Cultural Exchange Program would be the re-emergence of Abstract Art in Russia, with Social Realism regaining dominance in the U.S..

* " Kenneth Noland: Color, Format and Abstract Art.

* Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Cubism and Abstract Art, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936.

His collection of American art was strong in Abstract expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Dada, Color Field, Lyrical Abstraction, and Neo-Expressionism and he often donated important works from his collection to institutions like MoMA, and other important private museums and University collections like the Norton Simon Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University among many others.

* Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless ( New York School Press, 2009.

In 1936, Rothko attended two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, " Cubism and Abstract Art ," and " Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism ," which greatly influenced his celebrated 1938 Subway Scene.

One of these houses the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, the museum being one of the finest of its kind.

Abstract expressionism arose during World War II and began to be showcased during the early forties at galleries in New York like The Art of This Century Gallery.

Also in Europe, Art brut, and Lyrical Abstraction or Tachisme ( the European equivalent to Abstract expressionism ) took hold of the newest generation.

Abstract expressionism and Action painting preceded the Fluxus movement, Happenings and the emergence of Performance Art.

Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age ( two volumes ).

* Mel Gooding, Abstract Art, Tate Publishing, 2001

Curated by Langsner, Four Abstract Classicists opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1959.

Abstract expressionism was introduced in the 1950s, and the Biennale is credited with importing Pop Art into the canon of art history by awarding the top prize to Robert Rauschenberg in 1964.

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is home to more than 12, 000 works of art in all media and is a comprehensive collection of American art with prominent holdings in 19th century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism, and contemporary art.

" Space Light Art "-Early Abstract Cinema and Multimedia, 1900-1959.

* Paul-Émile Borduas and the Rise of Abstract Art from Mount Allison University.

In 1950, de Kooning was one of 17 prominent Abstract Expressionists and avant-garde artists to sign an open letter to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art accusing it of hostility towards “ advanced art .”

* Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless An Illustrated Survey With Artists ' Statements, Artwork and Biographies.

As a full-fledged art movement, Photorealism evolved from Pop Art and as a counter to Abstract Expressionism as well as Minimalist art movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States.

Abstract expressionism has many stylistic similarities to the Russian artists of the early twentieth century such as Wassily Kandinsky.

Matisse and Miró as well as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian directly influenced the Abstract Expressionists, the Color Field painters of Post-Painterly Abstraction and the Lyrical Abstractionists.

Many styles of modern art, including Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Abstract art, Surrealism are represented with works by Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Le Douanier Rousseau, Paul Signac, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Emil Nolde, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Marc Chagall, Natalia Gontcharova, Mikhail Larionov, Alexander Rodchenko, Kupka, Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg, Paul Klee, Vassili Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Jacques Villon, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Rouault, Balthus, Max Beckmann, Brancusi and Calder, Soutine, Marc Chagall, Modigliani, Kees Van Dongen, Jean Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Magritte, Max Ernst, Miro, Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, Nicolas de Staël, André Masson, Tanguy, Jean Tinguely, Yves Klein, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon.

* Wassily Kandinsky-Concerning the Spiritual in Art

His paintings were featured at " Visual Music " fest, an homage to synesthesia that included the works of Wassily Kandinsky, James McNeill Whistler, and Paul Klee, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2005.

* Wassily Kandinsky, M. T. Sadler ( Translator ) Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

Wassily Kandinsky has discussed this connection between music and painting, as well as how the practice of classical composition had influenced his work, at length in his seminal essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

He was educated at Binkov Art College and Ostrowsky Art Institute, and considers himself a student of Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky and Antoni Gaudí.

Art school, usually considered difficult, was easy for Kandinsky.

Interest in Kandinsky grew apace when Sadleir published an English translation of On the Spiritual In Art in 1914.

Writing of the " artist as prophet " in his book, Concerning the Spiritual In Art, Kandinsky created paintings in the years immediately preceding World War I showing a coming cataclysm which would alter individual and social reality.

As he stated in Concerning the Spiritual In Art ( see below ), Kandinsky felt that an authentic artist creating art from " an internal necessity " inhabits the tip of an upward-moving pyramid.

Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art.

In Modern Art Kandinsky and Mondriaan are both famous and both were influenced by theosophy.

For Kandinsky, blue is the colour of spirituality: the darker the blue, the more it awakens human desire for the eternal ( see his 1911 book On the Spiritual in Art ).

Gabo contributed to the Agit-prop open air exhibitions and taught at ' VKhUTEMAS ' the Higher Art and Technical Workshop, with Tatlin, Kandinsky and Rodchenko.

Just before the onset of the First World War in 1914, Gabo discovered contemporary art, by reading Kandinsky ’ s Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which asserted the principles of abstract art.

* Voir l ' invisible, sur Kandinsky ( Seeing the Invisible, about Kandinsky ): Art can save man, abandoned by our technological civilization, from his confusion.

Among these have been many writers, artists and musicians ; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma Lagerlöf and Albert Schweitzer, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bruno Walter, and Right Livelihood Award winner Ibrahim Abouleish.

By the following year their ranks had grown to include German painter, sculptor and designer Oskar Schlemmer who headed the theater workshop, and Swiss painter Paul Klee, joined in 1922 by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

This influence culminated with the addition of Der Blaue Reiter founding member Wassily Kandinsky to the faculty and ended when Itten resigned in late 1922.

* 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist ( b. 1866 )

These " modernist " landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Kazimir Malevich all believed in redefining art as the arrangement of pure color.

These include the philosophers Albert Schweitzer, Owen Barfield and Richard Tarnas ; the writers Saul Bellow, Michael Ende, Selma Lagerlöf, Andrej Belyj, David Spangler, and William Irwin Thompson ; the artists Josef Beuys, Wassily Kandinsky, and Murray Griffin ; actor and acting teacher Michael Chekhov ; cinema director Andrei Tarkovsky ; and conductor Bruno Walter.

The artists, with their roots in Dada and Cubism, the abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky, Expressionism, and Post-Impressionism, also reached to older " bloodlines " such as Hieronymus Bosch, and the so-called primitive and naive arts.

Theosophical concepts can be seen in the work of Sergei Bulgakov ( 1877-1945 ), Nikolai Berdyaev ( 1874-1945 ), Leopold Ziegler ( 1881-1958 ), Valentin Tomberg ( 1901-1973 ), Auguste-Edouard Chauvet ( 1885-1955 ), Wassily Kandinsky ( 1866-1944 ), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ( 1888-1975 ) and Henry Corbin ( 1903-1978 ).

* Wassily Kandinsky – painter

It was this academy which Gropius transformed into the world famous Bauhaus, attracting a faculty that included Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Bartning and Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (, Vasiliy Vasil ’ yevich Kandinskiy, ; – 13 December 1944 ) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist.

* Wassily Kandinsky, M. T. Sadler ( Translator ), Adrian Glew ( Editor ).

* Wassily Kandinsky, M. T Sadler ( Translator ).

* Wassily Kandinsky.

* Wassily Kandinsky.

* Wassily Kandinsky.

The Life of Vasilii Kandinsky in Russian art: a study of " On the spiritual in art " by Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Kandinsky 1866 – 1944: A Revolution in Painting.

Wassily Kandinsky.

* Wassily Kandinsky papers, 1911-1940 The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California.

* WassilyKandinsky. net, Biography and works of Wassily Kandinsky