The Shock of the NewAn illustrated history of modern art describes the origins of modern painting, sculpture, and architecture, shows how world events affected the art, and explains why the movement is near its end. |
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... Kandinsky ( 1866-1944 ) is bound to present its admirers with problems , and these have to do with the nature of Kandinsky's own beliefs . He was , if not the " onlie begetter " of abstract art , certainly its outstanding pioneer ; in ...
... Kandinsky ( 1866-1944 ) is bound to present its admirers with problems , and these have to do with the nature of Kandinsky's own beliefs . He was , if not the " onlie begetter " of abstract art , certainly its outstanding pioneer ; in ...
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... Kandinsky was certainly one of the first to expel objects from his work so as to reach a higher intensity of feeling ... Kandinsky's Little Pleasures , 1913 , clearly depicts a landscape with a rider on horseback bounding over the ...
... Kandinsky was certainly one of the first to expel objects from his work so as to reach a higher intensity of feeling ... Kandinsky's Little Pleasures , 1913 , clearly depicts a landscape with a rider on horseback bounding over the ...
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... Kandinsky's work , which was exhibited in depth – a retro- spective of more than two hundred paintings and drawings - at the Museum of Non- Objective Art in New York in 1945. This show was the climax of a steady exposure to Kandinsky ...
... Kandinsky's work , which was exhibited in depth – a retro- spective of more than two hundred paintings and drawings - at the Museum of Non- Objective Art in New York in 1945. This show was the climax of a steady exposure to Kandinsky ...
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