Kandinsky CameoOne of the Great Modern Masters series of monographs on 20th-century artists, this volume offers an introduction to Wassily Kandinsky, reproducing major works from all periods of his career. Kandinsky was a founder of the expressionist Blaue Reiter group, and of pure abstract painting. |
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... art can be traced to him . His project was related to other avant - garde movements that emerged in the early decades of the century - Constructivism , Suprematism , Neoplasticism- which also practiced nonrepresentational painting , but ...
... art can be traced to him . His project was related to other avant - garde movements that emerged in the early decades of the century - Constructivism , Suprematism , Neoplasticism- which also practiced nonrepresentational painting , but ...
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... nonrepresentational painting , for it was precise- ly the dematerializing of the motif in Monet's painting , the way that objects were beginning to dissolve into color and light , that impressed Kandinsky , who was captivated by the ...
... nonrepresentational painting , for it was precise- ly the dematerializing of the motif in Monet's painting , the way that objects were beginning to dissolve into color and light , that impressed Kandinsky , who was captivated by the ...
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... artist . His paintings were already nonrepresentational ; only a few spare brushstrokes occasionally still hint- ed at figures and objects , now more as oblique allusions to the painting's meaning than as its actual subject . Such ...
... artist . His paintings were already nonrepresentational ; only a few spare brushstrokes occasionally still hint- ed at figures and objects , now more as oblique allusions to the painting's meaning than as its actual subject . Such ...
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