Was Kandinsky a Surrealist?

But Kandinsky was an “instinctual surrealist” or maybe an “accidental surrealist.” As a writer, he was a theorist of retinal-art and spiritual art and not particularly mind-art à la Duchamp (which he perhaps did not really understand).

Is Kandinsky an impressionist?

That year, at the age of 30, Kandinsky abandoned his career and moved to Munich to study art. Among the early styles he embraced were Impressionism and Jugendstil (the German equivalent of Art Nouveau).

Was Kandinsky a Expressionist?

One of the greatest Russian artists of the 20th century, and a leading exponent of Expressionism, Wassily Kandinsky was both painter and art theorist. ... He is regarded as one of the leading expressionist painters and arguably the greatest of the early abstract painters.