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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.
2014 Reprint of 1914 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Wassily
Kandinsky s contributions as a theorist were arguably more
influential on modern art than any of his paintings. In this work,
first published in 1914, Kandinsky both promotes and defends a form
of art in which painters express themselves in abstract terms
independent of the material world around them, much as musicians
do. Divided into two parts, "About General Aesthetic" (including an
examination of geometrical forms) and "About Painting" (a
discussion of the psychology of color and the language and form of
color), the work offers an insight into the mind of one of the most
renowned of all abstract painters and a preview of the art that he
was to produce in the years to come. Russian painter WASSILY
KANDINSKY (1866-1944), was one of the most famous artists of the
20th century and pioneered abstract art.
The spiritual life of human-kind follows the shape of a pyramid,
occasionally rising to an apex of spiritual perception when an
artist of genius comes forward to lead the way, and sinking to the
bottom of the pyramid when culture produces nothing but decadence.
The colors a painter smears onto a canvas can delight the eye, but
they can also cause the viewer to receive vibrations that resonate
within the soul. Born in Russia in 1866, Kandinsky was a pioneer of
the abstract, who used "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" to argue
for the transcendental importance of his vocation.
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