Mark Rothko and Wassily Kandinsky. Abstract art can be near-impossible to comprehend. Luckily, it doesn't ask to be. Art tends to be inseparable from its socio-political and historical context ...

The German artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is considered to be the first entirely abstract ... and his art. Encyclopaedia Britannica: Kandinsky (Princeton and subscribers only) WebMuseum: ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on ...

Just ask the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. Late one night in ... Kandinsky helped to create a whole new type of painting, called abstract art. But all those other painters, who'd spent ...

For example, when looking at the painting on the right our brain can imagine the movements performed by Kandinsky in its creation. Brush-strokes are a major feature of abstract art. Unlike ...

One of Marc's last figure paintings before ... in a landscape of semi-abstract shapes and plant-forms. Painted by Franz Marc (1880-1916), the co-founder, with Wassily Kandinsky of the ...

Wassily Kandinsky ... When he saw a painting by Claude Monet and heard music by the composer Richard Wagner, Kandinsky was inspired to create art. He moved to Germany to learn more about art.