| Movement in fine arts that emphasized the expression of inner experience rather than solely
realistic portrayal, seeking to depict not objective reality but the subjective emotions and responses that
objects and events arouse in the artist. |
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Wassily Kandinsky
Russian painter, whose exploration of the possibilities of abstraction make him one of the most important
innovators in modern art. Both as an artist and as a theorist he played a pivotal role in the development
of abstract art. |