Topic: Wassily Kandinsky

Top 10 list of most popular oil paintings

Have you ever wanted to collect and display fine art but felt you can't afford it? Well, think again. Copies of van Goghs, Monets, Dalis, Picassos...
When the revolution of 1917 brought down the czar and destroyed bourgeois culture, nobody was happier than the artists of Russia.. . The prospect...

Understanding abstract art

Modern Abstraction arose during a time of war and artistic revelation. Wassily Kandinsky started to abstract from nature in his early Munich works but moved into the non-objective or abstraction from the spirit. " Many artists, like Kandinsky, had a utopian or socialist ...

My Favourite Painting Right Now

The hubpage was inspired by a question that someone asked ?but don't ask me why this is my favourite painting! I guess the composition comes into it but why do any of us like certain paintings - there must be something in ...

The Books

As Paul de Jong glides his bowalong his cello, a lyrical whisper emerges inconspicuously from Nick Zammuto whois plucking the strings of his guitar.Touring for the first time to Florida, The Books willbe playing at the Social April 2 at the ...

Abstract Art

Abstract Art usually means painting and sculpture in which the materials of art (for example, paint and canvas) and the ways in which they are used (forms and colors) are the means that convey the artist's purpose. In 1913, Wassily Kandinsky ...

Today on New Scientist: 24 September 2010

Full text RSS - You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New Scientist. Aurora saturnalis: halos at the poles of the ringed planet . David Hockney, Wassily Kandinsky and other synaesthetes could tell you. As the story of a Montana ...
LETTERS, words, numbers, sounds, touch, pain and smell all trigger flashes of colour in Carol Steen's mind. Other synaesthetic artists include David Hockney and Wassily Kandinsky, who painted the piece below, entitled Blue. Steen agrees: "I saw a sphere like the ...

Versions of Modernism: From Picasso to Pollock

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is home to more than 11,000 works of art by such masters of Modernism as Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Renee Magritte, and Jackson Pollock. The period of Modernism is one of the most important visual ...

The Avant Garde movement in Russia:

The Avant Garde movement in Russia Introduction: The avant garde movement in Russia was existence in 1949 to the year 1952, the term avant garde is a Russian term that means the front guards or the van guards, this term refers to ...