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'''Wassily Kandinsky''' (1866-1944) was a [[Russian]]-born [[French]] [[Expressionism|Expressionist]] painter.
'''Wassily Kandinsky''' (Moscow 1866 - Paris 1944) was a [[Russian]]-born [[French]] [[Expressionism|Expressionist]] painter. He is considered the founder of abstract art.
Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) followed the style of Wassily; she also lived with him for a decade until Kandinsky returned to Russia.
Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) followed the style of Wassily; she also lived with him for a decade until Kandinsky returned to Russia.
"It was at this special moment that Kandinsky realized the tremendous power that art could exert over the spectator and that painting could develop powers equivalent to those of music. He felt special attraction to Wagner, whose music was greatly admired by the Symbolists for its idea of Gesamtkunstwerk that embraced word, music, and the visual arts and was best embodied in Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, with its climax of global cataclysm. [http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kandinsky.html]
"It was at this special moment that Kandinsky realized the tremendous power that art could exert over the spectator and that painting could develop powers equivalent to those of music. He felt special attraction to Wagner, whose music was greatly admired by the Symbolists for its idea of Gesamtkunstwerk that embraced word, music, and the visual arts and was best embodied in Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, with its climax of global cataclysm. [http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kandinsky.html]
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Kandinsky learned to play piano and cello at an early age... "I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could..."
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Image:Kandinsky the Blue Mountain.jpg|The Blue Mountain.
Image:Kandinsky the Blue Mountain.jpg|The Blue Mountain.
Image:Kandinsky Improvisation No. 30.jpg|Improvisation No. 30.
Image:Kandinsky Improvisation No. 30.jpg|Improvisation No. 30.
Image:Kandinsky Untitled.jpg|Untitled.
Image:Kandinsky Untitled.jpg|Untitled.
Image:Kandinsky Comp-9.jpg|Composition IX.
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