[kan-din-skee; Russ. kuhn-dyeen-skyee] 
| Was⋅si⋅ly [vas-uh-lee] or Va⋅si⋅li [vas-uh-lee, vuh-sil-ee; Russ. vuh-syee-lyee] , 1866–1944, Russian painter. |
| Kan·din·sky or Kan·din·ski (kān-dĭn'skē, kən-dyĭn'-) Russian abstract painter who considered form and color capable of expression. A founder of Blaue Reiter, a German group of abstract expressionists, he also taught at the Bauhaus School (1922-1933). |
A Russian-born painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who was a pioneer of abstract expressionism. His early canvases are turbulent abstractions; after 1920 his work incorporated brightly colored geometric forms.
Note: Kandinsky taught at the Bauhaus from 1922 to 1933.
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