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Definition of Kandinsky
1. Noun. Russian painter who was a pioneer of abstract art (1866-1944).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kandinsky
Literary usage of Kandinsky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hallucinations and Illusions: A Study of the Fallacies of Perception by Edmund Parish (1897)
"... Centres—Theories of Pel man and Kandinsky—False • Perception a Phenomenon
conditioned by disturbed As so ciati on—Meynert —James—-Explanation s ugge si ..."
2. Design and Analysis by Bernard Leupen, Christoph Grafe, Nicola Körnig, Marc Lampe, Peter De Zeeuw (1997)
"The Beaux-Arts academies carried these principles through into our own century,
whereupon the Russian painter and Bauhaus master Wassily Kandinsky gave them ..."
3. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1908)
"Dr. Kandinsky writes of their difference as follows : ' ' In carelessly questioning
a patient we may confound his pseudo- hallucinatory perceptions with ..."
4. Convention and Revolt in Poetry by John Livingston Lowes (1919)
"Kandinsky, says his English interpreter — and the same is asserted of Picasso
and others by their followers — “Kandinsky is painting music; that is to say, ..."
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