Harry N. Abrams
1996
ISBN: 0810946920
English
72 pages
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In the years before World War I, the Russian-born painter Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), then living in Germany, formed with the artist Franz Marc and others the group known as the Blue Rider. Together they developed a variety of Expressionism notable for its rich colors. Kandinsky, however, wanted to go further, and continued to push his work to the edge of abstraction, and then beyond it, becoming one of the founders of twentieth-century abstract art. No longer limited to the natural appearances of things, Kandinsky exploited the expressive power of color and of complex, intertwined lines to create his own visual world.
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