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Who painted it?
Who painted “Composition VI”?
“Composition VI” was painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1913. Where to see it: Hermitage Museum.
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What to look for
Wassily Kandinsky: abstract compositions of floating colour, lines and circles; earlier, blazing colour landscapes, later precise geometric forms.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Wikipedia
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More by Wassily Kandinsky
- “Composition VII”, 1913
- “The Blue Rider”, 1903
- “Composition VIII”, 1923
- “Colorful Life”, 1907
- “Yellow-Red-Blue”, 1925
- “On White II”, 1923
- “Sky Blue”, 1940
- “Composition X”, 1939