Name, Wassily Kandinsky; the great Russian artist and famous painter is depicted in ca. 35 of his life quotes, art quotations and biography notes. Kandinsky was co-founder and famous leader in the art movement Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) in Munich, together with Franz Marc. Kandinsky lived and worked till 1914 in the village Murnau, with the great woman painter Gabriele Münter. There Jawlensky, his wife Marianne von Werefkin and Paul Klee visited them a lot, to paint in open air. Kandinsky wrote ”The Spiritual in Art”; the book inspired a lot of artists.

* Ellsworth Kelly, his famous life quotes by the artist of Hard Edge art

Name, Ellsworth Kelly; the great American abstract artist is depicted in 32 of his life quotes and art quotations; also some biography notes. Kelly is famous because of his extreme flat painting (Hard Edge art,) build up in abstract, simple forms and colors. As young painter Kelly stayed in Paris where he found his basic approach, partly influenced by his many visits to the great senior artistHans Arp and his wife Sophie Tauber.

* Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, his famous life quotes by the artist in German Expressionism

Name, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; the great famous German artist is depicted in 8 of his art life quotes, quotations, and biography notes. Kirchner was one of the leading painters in German Expressionism, in the famous art movement Die Brücke, Berlin. After a mental collapse Kirchner moved to Swiss where he continued painting in an expressive style, till his death in 1938.

* Paul Klee, his famous life quotes by the artist in German Expressionism / Surrealism

Name, Paul Klee; great painter in Blue Rider and later on the Bauhaus, is depicted in ca. 17 of his art quotations & life quotes; many of them are his early quotatations as a beginning artist. Klee joined partly in the ‘Blue Rider’ artist group, and painted in the open air mountain-landscapes around Murnau, together with the great artists Kandinsky ,Gabriele Münter ,Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin. Later he would meet Kandinsky again; both became famous art teachers at the Bauhaus.

* Yves Klein, his famous life quotes by the French artist

Name, Yves Klein; The great famous French artist is depicted in ca. 30 of his art quotations & life quotes. Klein made a lot of monochrome paintings in his life, mostly in his famous blue, and in gold colour. Later he also used fire, nature itself and air, as the raw materials for creating his ‘ immaterial’ art. Klein’s ultimate ambition was to make spatial art without any boundaries.

* Franz Kline, his famous life quotes by the artist in Abstract Expressionism

Name, Franz Kline; the famous painter in American Abstract Expressionism is depicted here in ca. 22 of his sourced art quotations & life quotes. Franz Kline was a close friend of the great New York artist Willem de Kooning and painted his abstract paintings mainly in black - white colors. Franz Kline started earlier in his life as a painter of the American landscape, which was also visible in his later abstract art.

* Willem de Kooning, his famous life quotes by the artist in Abstract Expressionism

Name, Willem de Kooning; the famous American artist - of Dutch origin - is depicted here in ca. 40 of his life quotes and art quotations, and biography notes. The sourced quotes illustrate his approach in his art and his ‘attitude’, as he calls it himself. With Pollock he was the great leader of Abstract Expressionism. The gesture was most important in his work, but also the many hours of looking to the painting. Arshile Gorky was one of his great friends.

* Lee Krasner, her famous life quotes by the woman artist in Abstract Expressionism

Name, Lee Krasner; The famous woman artist, painter (and wife of the famous abstract-expressionist painter Jackson Pollock: drip-paintings) is depicted in ca. 25 of her sourced life quotes & art quotations with short biography notes. The detailed art quotations by Lee Krasner illustrate describe very accurate her development as a great woman artist in American abstract expressionism and the characteristic moves and shifts she made in her art during the years.