Wassily Kandinsky
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstra
Kandinsky, c. 1925
Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula (1908)
The Blue Rider (1903)
Akhtyrka, 1901, Lenbachhaus, Kunstarealm, Munich
The Blue Rider (Kandinsky)
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The Blue Rider is a 1903 oil painting by Wassily Kandinsky. The work depicts a rider in a blue cloak riding on a white horse through a meadow, with a forest in the background. The painting uses bright
Wassily Kandinsky
…experience of subject matter, not to describe objective nature. Perhaps the most important of his paintings from the first decade of the 1900s was The Blue Rider (1903), which shows a small cloaked figure on a speeding horse rushing through a rocky meadow. The rider's cloak is medium blue, which casts a darker-blue…
Seeing Claude Monet's Haystacks played a significant role in Kandinsky's move away from realistic art toward abstraction.
A portrait of Franz Marc by August Macke. Marc was one of the founders of Der Blaue Reiter and Macke was a member.