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Loading... Spiritualiteit en abstractie in de kunst (1910)by Wassily Kandinsky, Charles Wentinck
Work InformationConcerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky (1910)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I tried to understand Kandinsky's philosophy here, but decided it was better to spend time gazing at his artworks. ( ) It's always a pleasure to read the words of someone who is passionate about something. Kandinsky was clearly really passionate about painting, a researcher, an explorer of new ideas. He exposes his views in this book. To me it was a hard read because I have not the sensibility he had and at times I felt disconnected from his explanation. You may not understand art much better but you would understand his mind. Kandinsky spent a lifetime painting in search of the spiritual. His body of work was his philosophical opus, provoked initially by the prodigious philosophical works of Madame Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, in which she introduced the Western world--and Kandinsky--to Eastern philosophies. Kandinsky believed that art had a duty to be spiritual in nature, an expression of "inner need," as he came to call it. He called "art for art's sake" a "vain squandering of artistic power" (p, 3). Concerning the Spiritual in Art was both his call to artists to meet their obligation to humanity and his attempt to define and explain color and form in its relation to expressing the message of the soul. (October 1996) no reviews | add a review
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crystallizes the ideas that were influencing many other modern artists of the period. Along with his own ground-breaking paintings, this book had a tremendous impact on the development of modern art. The first part issues a call for a spiritual revolution in painting that will let artists express their own inner lives in abstract, non-material terms. Just as musicians do not depend upon the material world for their music, so artists should not have to depend upon the material world for their art. In the second part, Kandinsky discusses the psychology of colors, the language of form and color, and the responsibilities of the artist. An Introduction by the translator offers additional explanation of Kandinsky's art and theories.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found.
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