Content is nothing but the sum of organized tensions. From … - Wassily Kandinsky

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Content is nothing but the sum of organized tensions. From this point of view one can discover the basic identity of the rules of composition in all arts – always accepting that the arts can only represent their object materially by means of organised reactions.. ..already today one can safely assume that the roots of laws of composition are the same for art as they are for nature.

Wassily Kandinsky

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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (December 4 or 16, 1866 - December 13, 1944) — was a Russian painter and art theorist and one of the leading figures in Blaue Reiter. One of the most important 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract art works.

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Alternative Names: Wassily Wassiljewitsch Kandinsky • Vasili Vasilevich Kandinsky • Vasilii Vasilevich Kandinskii • Vasily Vasil'yevich Kandinsky • Vasilij Kandinski • Vasilij Vasil'evic Kandinskij • Vasily Kandinsky • Vasilij Kandinskij • Vasily. Kandinsky • Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij • Wassili Kandinsky • Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky • Vasili Vasileevich Kandinsky • Vasilĭi Vasilʹevich Kandinskĭi • Vasilij Vasilijevitch Kandynski • Wassily Kandinski • Basile W. Kandinsky • Wahsili Kang-ting-ssu-chi • Vassily Kandinsky • Kandinsky • w. kandinsky • Vasili Vasil'evich Kandinski

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