Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky.

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.

Blue Rider offered a forum in its publication Blaue Reiter Almanack for the diverse viewpoints concerning art, music, and architecture found in the Expressionist movement. At the onset of World.

Review of Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911). First Posted on Amazon, 13 April 2010. This was my initial response to reading Kandinsky's book. I posted it to Amazon on 13 April 2010 which provided a quick-and-easy platform from which to explore the idea of the conference - Alastair McIntosh. This is a fantastic short book.

The Art of Spiritual Reflection: Applications for Service-learning and Civic Engagement on Campus By Elaine Elliott, Barbara Quinn, and Chris Nayve Colleagues from the University of San Diego share how reflection can be incorporated into service-learning and civic engagement courses and programs as a type of spiritual practice. Through sharing.

CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL IN ART Page 3 of 28 Only a feeble light glimmers like a tiny star in a vast gulf of darkness. This feeble light is but a presentiment, and the soul, when it sees it, trembles in doubt whether the light is not.

Wassily Kandinsky Excerpt from Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 19111 Every work of art is th e child of its tim e, often it is the mother of our emotions. Thus, every period of culture produ ces its own art, whic h ca n never be repeated. Any attempt to give new life to the artistic principles of the past can at best only result in a work of.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily KANDINSKY (1866 - 1944), translated by Michael SADLER (1888 - 1957) Published in 1911, Kandinsky's book compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid -- the artist has a mission to lead others to the pinnacle with his work.

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The title of this paper comes from Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art,. firstly a brief history of the spiritual in art and science, secondly a survey of the spiritual in 20th century art, and thirdly by a survey of the spiritual in 20th century science. These sections, because of their breadth, can only touch on some of the key elements, but it is hoped that in the conclusions.

Bright colours ( warm hues ) fit well for spaces requiring lots of activities and mental alertness, therefore these colours are often being used in school environments. While on the other hand, cooler hues tend to calm people. In his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky did analysis on the sensory effects in colour. He found that.

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The moment of unpredictability and improvisation that was so important to Kandinsky, and that he struggles to achieve in the abstract works produced under the auspices of On the Spiritual in Art—and I want to point out that the scholar Richard Stratton has noted that this has a unique place, this essay, in the history of avant-garde thinking, for Kandinsky's ideas were developed before the.