He and his colleague, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture.

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

Kandinsky considered the basic plane a living being, which the artist " fertilizes " and feels " breathing ".

However, Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky's personal quarters.

Despite the widespread popular belief that the chair was designed for painter Wassily Kandinsky, Breuer's colleague on the Bauhaus faculty, it was not ; Kandinsky admired Breuer's finished chair design, and only then did Breuer make an additional copy for Kandinsky's use in his home.

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

Sadleir's interest in Kandinsky also led to Kandinsky's first works entering a British art collection ; Sadleir's father, Michael Sadler, acquired several woodprints and the abstract painting Fragment for Composition VII in 1913 following a visit by father and son to meet Kandinsky in Munich that year.

Hearing tones and chords as he painted, Kandinsky theorized that ( for example ), yellow is the colour of middle C on a brassy trumpet ; black is the colour of closure, and the end of things ; and that combinations of colours produce vibrational frequencies, akin to chords played on a piano.

Kandinsky also developed a theory of geometric figures and their relationships — claiming, for example, that the circle is the most peaceful shape and represents the human soul.

During the studies Kandinsky made in preparation for Composition IV, he became exhausted while working on a painting and went for a walk.

" Inner necessity " is, for Kandinsky, the principle of art and the foundation of forms and the harmony of colours.

After Bayer had studied for four years at the Bauhaus under such teachers as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and László Moholy-Nagy, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising.

To finance these moves, controversially, the foundation sold works by Kandinsky, Chagall and Modigliani to raise $ 47 million, drawing considerable criticism for trading masters for " trendy " latecomers.

For example, the result of flipping a coin, or on her preference for one of two relatively abstract paintings ( commonly, one by Klee and the other by Kandinsky ).

* 1944 in art-Birth of Odd Nerdrum, death of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon completes Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

Opened in its place is the Papalote museo del niño an interactive children's museum with up to thirty exhibitions and artistic experiences for children, such as Mindball, Kandinsky Rug, Gigantic Piano, and others.

At the invitation of Wassily Kandinsky, Delaunay joined The Blue Rider ( Der Blaue Reiter ), a Munich-based group of abstract artists, in 1911, and his art took a turn for the abstract Delaunay was also successful in Germany, Switzerland, and Russia.

Kandinsky wrote 20 year later that the name is derived from Marc's enthusiasm for horses and Kandinsky's love of riders, combined with both love of the color blue.

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 ).

In 1910, through his friendship with Franz Marc, Macke met Kandinsky and for a while shared the non-objective aesthetic and the mystical and symbolic interests of Der Blaue Reiter.

Orphic painters cited analogies with music in their titles ; for example, Kupka ’ s Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors ( 1912 ) and Francis Picabia ’ s abstract composition Dance at the Source ( 1912 ) and Wassily Kandinsky ’ s Über das Geistige in der Kunst ( 1912 ).

Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty.

Gleizes ' iconography ( as of Delaunay, Le Fauconnier and Léger ) helps to explain why there is no period in his work corresponding to analytic Cubism, and how it was possible for Gleizes to become an abstract painter, more theoretically in tune with Kandinsky and Mondrian than Picasso and Braque, who remained associated with visual reality.

The chair became known as " Wassily " decades later, when it was re-released by an Italian manufacturer named Gavina who had learned of the anecdotal Kandinsky connection in the course of its research on the chair's origins.

He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1921.

In addition to painting, Kandinsky was an art theorist ; his influence on the history of Western art stems perhaps more from his theoretical works than from his paintings.

In another episode with Münter during the Bavarian abstract expressionist years, Kandinsky was working on his Composition VI.

Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art.

Finally what makes this gallery extremely important is the amazing collection Russian avant-garde with works by Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov and so on.

Among the artists represented in the collection are, from Italy, De Chirico ( The Red Tower, The Nostalgia of the Poet ) and Severini ( Sea Dancer ); from France, Braque ( The Clarinet ), Duchamp ( Sad Young Man on a Train ), Léger ( Study of a Nude ), Picabia ( Very Rare Picture on Earth ); from Spain, Dalí ( Birth of Liquid Desires ), Miró ( Seated Woman II ) and Picasso ( The Poet, On the Beach ); from other European countries, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), Max Ernst ( The Kiss, Attirement of the Bride ), Giacometti ( Woman with Her Throat Cut, Woman Walking ), Gorky ( Untitled ), Kandinsky ( Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, White Cross ), Klee ( Magic Garden ), Magritte ( Empire of Light ) and Mondrian ( Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938, Composition with Red 1939 ); and from the US, Calder ( Arc of Petals ) and Pollock ( The Moon Woman, Alchemy ).

With artists like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Emma Kunz, and later on Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Agnes Martin, abstract art clearly implied expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious and the mind.

* Sonorité jaune ( 1957 sketch based on Wassily Kandinsky, Der gelbe Klang )

The Cocteau exhibition was followed by exhibitions on Wassily Kandinsky ( his first one-man-show in England ), Yves Tanguy, Wolfgang Paalen and several other well-known and some lesser-known artists.

In 1936 he traveled ( on a BSA motorbike he had scraped together enough money to buy ) to Paris to become a student of Kandinsky.

Lyotard has written extensively also on few contemporary artists of his choice: Valerio Adami, Daniel Buren, Marcel Duchamp, Bracha Ettinger and Barnett Newman, as well as on Paul Cézanne and Wassily Kandinsky.

The Cabaret exhibited radically experimental artists, many of whom went on to change the face of their artistic disciplines ; featured artists included Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Giorgio de Chirico, and Max Ernst.

Irwin whistling can be heard on his solo performances and albums, but also in appearances with the chamber music group Kandinsky Trio.

The " Galka Scheyer collection of works by the Blue Four artists " boasts paintings and works on paper by Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky, and Vasily Kandinsky.

His visual style seems equidistant between Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee on the one hand and Marc Chagall on the other.

Kandinsky, the main artist of Der Blaue Reiter group, believed that with simple colours and shapes the spectator could perceive the moods and feelings in the paintings, a theory that encouraged him towards increased abstraction.

In particular, he wrote books about Le Corbusier, Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and artistic theory.