* Abstract Art: Wassily Kandinsky

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

* WassilyKandinsky. net, Biography and works of Wassily 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

This style of hard-edge geometric abstraction recalls the earlier work of Kasimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Theo van Doesburg, and Piet Mondrian.

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.

Artists who have worked extensively in geometric abstraction include Nadir Afonso, Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Mino Argento, Max Bill, Ilya Bolotowsky, Nassos Daphnis, Ronald Davis, Tony DeLap, Burgoyne Diller, Theo van Doesburg, Thomas Downing, Günter Fruhtrunk, Al Held, Wassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Hilma af Klint, Frantisek Kupka, Michael Loew, Kazimir Malevich, Agnes Martin, John McLaughlin, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Alejandro Otero, Ad Reinhardt, Jack Reilly, Bridget Riley, Alexander Rodchenko, Sean Scully, Leon Polk Smith, Frank Stella, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Victor Vasarely, Charmion von Wiegand, Zanis Waldheims, Gordon Walters, Neil Williams and Larry Zox among others.

A non-prescriptive group of artists were involved, whose ideals and practices varied widely: Albert Gleizes, František Kupka, Piet Mondrian, Jean Arp, Marlow Moss, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Kurt Schwitters, Wassily Kandinsky, Théo Kerg, Taro Okamoto, Paule Vézelay, Hans Erni, Bart van der Leck, Leon Tutundjian and John Wardell Power.

More recent acquisitions include pieces by Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian.

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.

The collection contains more than 130, 000 exhibits, ranging from Theotokos of Vladimir and Andrei Rublev's Trinity to the monumental Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky and the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich.

Given that many of these avant-garde artists were born or grew up in what is present day Belarus and Ukraine ( including Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Ekster, Vladimir Tatlin, Wassily Kandinsky, David Burliuk, Alexander Archipenko ), some sources also talk about Ukrainian avant-garde.

The first collegium was headed by Vladimir Tatlin and included Kasimir Malevich, I. Mashkov ( И. Машков ), N. Udaltsova ( Н. Удальцова ), O. Rozanova ( О. Розанова ), Alexander Rodchenko, Wassily Kandinsky.

He immersed himself in the theories of Ernst-Wilhelm Nay, Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich.

Eckbo was also influenced by the works of several abstract painters, including Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and Kasimir Malevich.

" Andrey Bely and Wassily Kandinsky articulated similar ideas on the " stage fusion of all arts.

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

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.

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.

Itten's works exploring the use and composition of color resemble the square op art canvases of artists such as Josef Albers, Max Bill and Bridget Riley, and the expressionist works of Wassily Kandinsky.

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

In 1912 Gabo transferred to an engineering school in Munich where he discovered abstract art and met Wassily Kandinsky and in 1913-14 joined his brother Antoine ( who by then was an established painter ) in Paris.

He was fired because his work was deemed unsuitable by the Nazis, with the result that several works were in the infamous exhibition of " degenerate art " in Munich in 1937, along with that of other Bauhaus artists, among them Herbert Bayer, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer and Lothar Schreyer.

# Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it is one of the most famous works by the artist Wassily Kandinsky, who was one of the foremost pioneers of modern art.

Later on, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky seem to have been an inspiration in spite of his often outspoken ridiculing of modern art.

He was one of the first advocates of the avant-garde artistic group Der Blaue Reiter and gave a lecture on the art of Wassily Kandinsky.