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Point and Line to Plane can be seen as a continuation of Wassily
Kandinsky's seminal treatise On the Spiritual in Art. Kandinsky's
thesis is that different constellations of point, line and surface
have different emotional effects on the viewer. Starting from the
point (which represents the most concentrated and minimal graphic
form), he understands all painterly forms as being a play of forces
and counterforces: of contrasts.
Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. Kandinsky's provocative thoughts on color theory, nature of art. Analysis of Picasso, Matisse, earlier masters. 12 illustrations.
But despite their patent and well-ordered security, despite their
infallible principles, there lurks in these higher segments a
hidden fear, a nervous trembling, a sense of insecurity. And this
is due to their upbringing. They know that the sages, statesmen and
artists whom today they revere, were yesterday spurned as swindlers
and charlatans.
Aparecido en 1926, Punto y linea sobre el plano es la continuacion
organica de otro texto de Kandinsky tambien publicado por Paidos,
De lo espiritual en el arte, y debe su origen, en su mayor parte, a
la tarea que su autor habia asumido en la Bauhaus desde 1922. En
efecto, tanto en su pintura como en sus ideas esteticas, Kandinsky
mostro siempre una personalidad absolutamente vanguardista y
provocadora de acaloradas polemicas. Y, en este sentido, la
presente obra es uno de sus trabajos fundamentales, ya que, a la
par que una esclarecedora contribucion al analisis de los elementos
esenciales del quehacer pictorico, constituye una aportacion basica
a la busqueda de un metodo generico para las investigaciones de las
ciencias artisticas. El libro, finalmente, tambien revela a
Kandinsky como un artista apasionado y siempre deseoso de explicar
y explicarse las razones primeras y mas profundas de esa extrana y
singular aventura que es la creacion artistica.
In this famous work by a pioneer in the movement to free art from the bonds of tradition-a work long considered essential to understanding the evolution of 20th-century art-Kandinsky explores the role of the line, point and other key elements of non-objective painting. 127 illustrations.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.
All art students are advised to read "Concerning the Spiritual in
Art," a short masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky. This classic best
explains the concepts that lead to abstract painting in the modern
era Kandinsky recognized the connection between music and painting.
He also suggested that artists free themselves from the material
world so that they can express their inner impulses. Thus the
abstract painting requires contemplation to reveal its meaning.
Furthermore, the meaning may be a projection of the inner life of
the viewer as much as it is the inner life of the artists. This
concept is not new to music but it certainly was new to painting in
1911. Once considered a radical idea, the spiritual aspect of
abstract art is now a given in culture. Wassily Kandinsky offers
some very insightful comments regarding his contemporaries,
recognizing Matisse as the 20th century master of color and Picasso
as the 20th century master of line. He faults them both, however,
for not making the final step toward complete abandonment of the
physical world. In "Concerning the Spiritual in Art," Kandinsky
also asserts that imitative painting of other eras was a deadly
trap for the artist, yet responding to the eternal call of the
unconscious forces in an earlier period of art history was a valid
area of exploration. Kandinsky believed that art progressed, that
artistic concepts built on each other and that there was a triangle
of artistic conception that moved forward to some end point, yet to
be discovered. Kandinsky warns against pattern painting, which he
thought would lead to monotony and away from spirituality. Every
artist owes it to themselves to read "Concerning the Spiritual in
Art." Though short, this book is the classic on which much art
history, philosophy, and practice has been based.
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The Russian Avant-garde (DVD)
George Costakis, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky; Directed by Barrie Gavin, …
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Collection of four documentaries about Russian avant-garde art
collector George Costakis and the painters whose works feature in
his collection. The films comprise: 'The Collector Costakis',
'Kazimir Malevich', 'Marc Chagall' and 'Kandinsky'.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.
In Concerning the spiritual in art, Kandinsky compares the
spiritual life of humanity to a large triangle similar to a
pyramid; the artist has the task and the mission of leading others
to the top by the exercise of his talent. The point of the triangle
is constituted only by some individuals who bring the sublime bread
to other people. It is a spiritual triangle which moves forwards
and rises slowly, even if it sometimes remains immobile. During
decadent periods, souls fall to the bottom of the Triangle and men
only search for external success and ignore purely spiritual
forces. When we look at colours on the painter's palette, a double
effect happens: a purely physical effect on the eye, charmed by the
beauty of colours firstly, which provokes a joyful impression as
when we eat a delicacy. But this effect can be much deeper and
causes an emotion and a vibration of the soul, or an inner
resonance, which is a purely spiritual effect, by which the colour
touches the soul itself. The inner necessity is for Kandinsky the
principle of the art and the foundation of forms and colours'
harmony. He defines it as the principle of the efficient contact of
the form with the human soul. Every form is the delimitation of a
surface by another one; it possesses an inner content which is the
effect it produces on the one who looks at it attentively. This
inner necessity is the right of the artist to an unlimited freedom,
but this freedom becomes a crime if it is not founded on such a
necessity. The art work is born from the inner necessity of the
artist in a mysterious, enigmatic and mystic way, and then it
acquires an autonomous life; it becomes an independent subject
animated by a spiritual breath. (createandshare.net)
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