Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction

Composition 8, 1923
By the 1920s, when he was teaching at the Bauhaus, the famed German school of modern art and design, Kandinsky had introduced more hard-edged geometric forms into his work. This was partly as a response to the geometrical abstraction of Russian modernists like Kazimir Malevich and El Lizzitsky, which he had encountered during a long final stay in Russia in the years before and after the 1917 revolution.

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