Kandinsky, Wassily
Kandinsky, Wassily, Russian in full VASILY VASILYEVICH KANDINSKY
(b. Dec. 4 [Dec. 16, New Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia--d. Dec. 13,
1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr.), Russian-born artist, one of the first
creators of pure ab straction in modern painting. After successful
avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der
Blaue Reiter
(The Blue Rider; 1911-14)
and began completely abstract
painting. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and,
finally, to pictographic ( e.g., Tempered Élan, 1944).
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994]
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