Kandinsky Trivia

Test your knowledge on the modern master

What year was Kandinsky born?

1866

1799

Which painting by Monet was a great inspiration to Kandinsky?

Clue: it's hard to find a needle in them

Haystacks

Haystacks, end of Summer (Claude Monet)

What was Kandinsky's job before he was a painter?

Clue: you might have found him working in a firm before he turned to the art studio

A lawyer

Portrait of Vassily Kandinsky (Anonymous)

What year did Kandinsky paint his first abstract work?

Clue: he was 44 years old at the time

1910

This watercolor is considered the first abstract painting in art history

What was Kandinsky's favorite medium?

Clue: Vincent van Gogh also worked mainly in this medium

Oil paint

Tubes and commercial colours (Kandinsky, Vassily)

What is the name of this painting?

Clue: what colors can you see?

Yellow-Red-Blue

Gelb-Rot-Blau (Yellow-Red-Blue) (Kandinsky, Vassily)

What did Kandinsky publish with Franz Marc?

Clue: it was also the name of an art movement lasting from 1911 to 1914

The Blue Rider

Der Blaue Reiter Almanach (The Blue Rider Almanac) was published in early 1912

On White II

The Blue Rider

Point and Line to Plane

Klänge

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What inspired this painting?

Clue: the motifs are part animal, part fantasy

Biological imagery

The motifs were inspired by biological and zoological imagery

What city did Kandinsky paint here?

Clue: this city is found in a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia

Moscow

Russian scene is not an attempt to paint the reality of life in Moscow, but a folkloric scene blended with the magic of stories and legend

What does yellow sound like?

Clue: it sounds like a brass instrument according to Kandinsky's color theory

Trumpet

When did Kandinsky start teaching at the Bauhaus?

Clue: he was 56 years old at the time

1922

Vassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee in the garden of the teacher's house in Dessau (Anonymous)

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