Kandinsky

American  

[kan-din-skee, kuhn-dyeen-skyee] / kænˈdɪn ski, kʌnˈdyin skyi /

noun

1. Wassily or Vasili 1866–1944, Russian painter.

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Kandinsky British  

/ kanˈdinskij /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Yet Münter has long been overshadowed by contemporaries like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who veered into acerbic expressionism, and Wassily Kandinsky, who migrated toward pure abstraction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

An exhibition featuring works by Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso has opened at the Beyeler Foundation, where Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone's We are Poems rainbow sculpture sits on the roof.

From BBC • May 11, 2025

In February, local artist Soo Hong showcases a series of paintings on translucent surfaces, fluid and colorful explosions that hearken back to Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee but feel completely contemporary and original.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024

Scholars mentioned her name in the same breath as Kandinsky and Mondrian — a woman stepping toward Modernism before most of her male contemporaries.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2023

The biography of Wissily Kandinsky still rests facedown on it as if she’s going to pick it up and resume reading from where she left off.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson