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Kandinsky and the Blue Rider: from the Lenbachhaus , Munich at Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum , Tokyo 23/11/2010 - 06/02/2011 Wassily Kandinsky, The Bride (1903) It was the first time for us to see exhibition together after moving to the new place. Wassily Kandinsky is not a small name, but my passion for his abstract art when I was a novice learner of the history of western art has long gone. As years have gone by, abstract arts only appear 'interesting' to me now. My adolescent admiration for the complexity and incomprehensibility that abstraction always represents was probably born of a feeling of discontent itself, a dissatisfaction with the world that, as I thought, had misunderstood and taken light of its young people. The exhibition, Kandinsky and the Blue Rider, however, featured the works of him and his fellow painters, the blue riders, showing their development of styles and change in artistic taste. Kandinsky's works from his early period amazed m...