Kandinsky

[ kan-din-skee; Russian kuhn-dyeen-skyee ]

/ kænˈdɪn ski; Russian kʌnˈdyin skyi /

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noun

Was·si·ly

[vas-uh-lee] /ˈvæs ə li/ or Va·si·li

[vas-uh-lee, vuh-sil-ee; Russian vuh-syee-lyee], /ˈvæs ə li, vəˈsɪl i; Russian vʌˈsyi lyi/, 1866–1944, Russian painter.

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Words nearby Kandinsky

Kanazawa, kanban, Kanchenjunga, Kanchipuram, Kandahar, Kandinsky, Kandinsky, Wassily, Kandy, Kaneohe, kang, kanga

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How to use Kandinsky in a sentence

Spence also took part in a study that found people liked their salad better if it looked like a Kandinsky painting.
Host an unforgettable meal with science and a personal touch|Sofia Quaglia|November 22, 2021|Popular-Science
Two panels painted in 1914 by Vasily Kandinsky and recently on view at the Museum of Modern Art.
When Chevy Was Facebook|Blake Gopnik|August 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Winters liked to paint—usually quirky joke paintings that owed something to surrealism and Kandinsky.
Remembering Jonathan Winters: Ken Tucker on the Tragic and Triumphant Life of the Late Comedian|Ken Tucker|April 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
This is “Impression III (Concert)”, by Vasily Kandinsky, and I think it is very ugly – gloriously, importantly ugly.
Vasily Kandinsky Gets Ugliness Right|Blake Gopnik|March 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST

In this, then, as in so much else, Kandinsky and Dalcroze are advancing side by side.
The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze|Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
If Kandinsky, as a theorist, is cabalistic and illusory, he achieves a certain decorative prettiness in his work.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright
Kandinsky has only tried to introduce an unimportant element of one art into another art.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright
Like the Cubists Kandinsky is a step toward arbitrariness in formal composition, but his advance is less significant than theirs.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright
Kandinsky is a painter of moods, and as such encroaches upon the domain of music.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright

British Dictionary definitions for Kandinsky

Kandinsky

/ (Russian kanˈdinskij) /

noun

Vasili (vaˈsilij). 1866–1944, Russian expressionist painter and theorist, regarded as the first to develop an entirely abstract style: a founder of der Blaue Reiter

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