Kandinsky then began to work on Composition, a series of ten canvases, the first three of which were destroyed during World War II.He considered these works his highest artistic achievement. The works ...

It couldn't come more full cirlce: Kandinsky created his only stage production based on Mussorgsky's piano cycle, "Pictures at an Exhibition," inspired by a photo exhibition. Kandinsky's stage ...

Colour, Kandinsky wrote in one of his key manifestos, was the keyboard, the eyes the hammers, and the soul is the piano with many strings. Kandinsky saw red when he heard a violin, yellow for a ...

Kandinsky was born on this day 148 years ago in Moscow, to a musical family, and learned to play the piano and cello. He would study law and economics, even lecturing at the Moscow Faculty of Law ...

Born and raised in Russia, Wassily Kandinsky left his native country for Germany around the age of 30 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He. ... the soul is the piano with strings.

Peter Schjeldahl reviews “Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle.” The show takes the viewer from joy to perplexity—or the reverse—depending on where you start on the museum’s ramp.

Wassily Kandinsky loved music and could play the cello and the piano. His paintings were even inspired by music.. He literally saw colours when he heard music and heard music when he painted.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) were two of the most important modernist artists in the early twentieth century.