The Shock of the NewA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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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 ...
Page 301
... 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 taught at the Bauhaus , so did a Swiss artist named Paul Klee ( 1879-1940 ) . And though Klee was not a Theosophist he was , like Kandinsky , devoted to an ideal of painting that stemmed from German idealist metaphysics . The ...
... Kandinsky taught at the Bauhaus , so did a Swiss artist named Paul Klee ( 1879-1940 ) . And though Klee was not a Theosophist he was , like Kandinsky , devoted to an ideal of painting that stemmed from German idealist metaphysics . The ...
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