Kandinsky's

Emulating the tactics of early 20th-century Modernism – with semi-abstract landscapes congruent to Salvador Dali's evocative yet surreal ambience – and borrowing from Kandinsky's sculptural semblance, recurring geometrical forms are built to create crippled new landscapes that leave an unfamiliar feeling of depth and space.

Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011

Scriabin's color-symphonies, Kandinsky's "improvisations," and all manner of elaborate invention - not to mention neo-spiritual movements such as Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy - spurred experiment in cross-media artwork throughout the western world about a hundred years ago.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010

The ability to express human emotions with basic brush strokes from symbolist painter Paul Gauguin, the sometimes frantic approach of Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch's undeniable predilection for themes such as love, fear, death and anxiety, Wassily Kandinsky's precision and strong intuition for colors.

Lia Petridis Maiello: Jersey City Museum of Russian Art (MoRA) is Worth Crossing the Hudson Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

Nierka, choreographed by the Nederlands Dans Theatre-based Fernando Hernando Magadan, creates drama out of the chemistry between its constituent elements – dance, lighting and music – and in so doing pays homage to Wassily Kandinsky's theory of synaesthesia and the theatrical vision of Antonin Artaud and Edward Gordon Craig.

This week's new theatre and dance 2012

The ability to express human emotions with basic brush strokes from symbolist painter Paul Gauguin, the sometimes frantic approach of Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch's undeniable predilection for themes such as love, fear, death and anxiety, Wassily Kandinsky's precision and strong intuition for colors.

Lia Petridis Maiello: Jersey City Museum of Russian Art (MoRA) is Worth Crossing the Hudson Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

The ability to express human emotions with basic brush strokes from symbolist painter Paul Gauguin, the sometimes frantic approach of Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch's undeniable predilection for themes such as love, fear, death and anxiety, Wassily Kandinsky's precision and strong intuition for colors.

Lia Petridis Maiello: Jersey City Museum of Russian Art (MoRA) is Worth Crossing the Hudson Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

Kandinsky's resulting 1913 masterpiece was "Painting With White Border," appearing at the Phillips Collection with nearly a dozen of the artist's preparatory sketches one is at left.

The Short List 2011

The comparisons illuminated Wassily Kandinsky's thinking, as he allowed even tenuous references to be overwhelmed by invented colors and shapes.

Museums Reveal Degas's Nudes and Islam's Splendor Karen Wilkin 2011

Emulating the tactics of early 20th-century Modernism – with semi-abstract landscapes congruent to Salvador Dali's evocative yet surreal ambience – and borrowing from Kandinsky's sculptural semblance, recurring geometrical forms are built to create crippled new landscapes that leave an unfamiliar feeling of depth and space.

Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011

The ability to express human emotions with basic brush strokes from symbolist painter Paul Gauguin, the sometimes frantic approach of Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch's undeniable predilection for themes such as love, fear, death and anxiety, Wassily Kandinsky's precision and strong intuition for colors.

Lia Petridis Maiello: Jersey City Museum of Russian Art (MoRA) is Worth Crossing the Hudson Lia Petridis Maiello 2011