“I feel the air from another planet,” announced a woman bathed in light. Vasily Kandinsky, seated before her in the shadows, was thrilled by this whiff of alien atmosphere. Indeed, he seemed to have ...

Playing with the boundaries between the visual and the musical is an old game. The Pythagoreans were probably the first westerners at it when they declared: "The eyes are made for astronomy, the ears ...

On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) occupies a pioneering role in the modernist canon. He was among a handful of artists ...

Exploding, eventually, into colour, this invigorating show dedicated to the early 20th-century expressionist group gives deserved prominence to its least famous member, Gabriele Münter A hilariously ...

For two weeks in September 2020, I saw my daughter, S, trying out her school art teacher’s prompt: attempting Wassily Kandinsky’s synaesthetic technique of giving shape and colour to music. The piece ...

Kandinsky was a Russian avant-garde artist, working in the late 19th to mid-20th century. He is best known for his abstract paintings, many of which were inspired by music. It is speculated he had ...

Mention abstract art, and Kandinsky’s compositions featuring brightly colored spots and geometric shapes are likely to be what comes to mind first. Click to enlarge the image of Vasily Kandinsky.